Massive Fire At Russia's Historic Saint Petersburg Factory Still Burning

Forty people had been evacuated from the factory and a nearby hotel was shuttered and its occupants relocated.

A spectacular fire gutted a historic factory in Russia's second city Saint Petersburg on Monday, sending clouds of black smoke over the former imperial capital. With the fire still raging Monday evening, the emergencies ministry said the body of one firefighter who had died had been recovered, while two others were hospitalised in serious condition with burns covering 40 to 50 percent of their bodies. Forty people had been evacuated from the factory and a nearby hotel was shuttered and its occupants relocated. The ministry said that the fire had broken out over several floors of the red-brick Nevskaya Manufaktura building on the Oktyabrskaya Embankment of the Neva River.