The fire occurred on May 9 in the Nurlatsky district in the village of Steppe Lake in a private house. Due to carelessness when smoking in bed, the mattress on the bed of a pensioner born in 1962 began to burn, there was smoke in the living room, which is why the autonomous smoke detectors worked.
The piercing sound of the sensors was heard by relatives who were in the garden at that moment. The son-in-law immediately rushed into the house. He pulled an elderly father-in-law out of the smoke-filled room in his arms. Then his wife and daughter arrived, they called firefighters and paramedics. With thermal burns of the body of 2-3 degrees (20%), the victim was hospitalized in the Nurlat CRH.