MES: In 3 out of 4 concrete tanks with ethanol, the fire is  extinguished

ArmInfo. The fire works at the Nairit plant continued all night.According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, according to the regulation at  09.00 on August 29, in 3 out of 4 concrete tanks with ethanol, the fire is extinguished. 

Work on extinguishing the fire on site continues with 7 combat  calculations.Recall that at 13:10 on August 28, a signal came that a  fire broke out in the territory of the Nairit rubber plant in  Yerevan. The fire was awarded the second, and after and the third  category of complexity. 12 combat crews and operational groups of the  Crisis Management Center left for the scene. In areas 14:00 the fire  was isolated. On-site specialists from the radiation, chemical and  biological monitoring group of the Rescue Service work. 

According to preliminary data from the Ministry of Emergency  Situations, a lacquer-ethanol burned up. It is reported that there is  no threat of release of chemicals into the atmosphere. The plant  "Nairit" completely ceased its work in 2014 with a  multibillion-dollar debt on its shoulders. Until the end of the  1980s, the plant's products accounted for 10-12% of the world  synthetic rubber market. In 2015, with the assistance of Jacobs  Consultancy specialists, the WB commissioned the government of  Armenia to conduct a financial and technical audit of the Nairit  plant, so the restart was not called "Nairit". Most experts believe  that the results of the World Bank audit should be considered as a  recommendation to the bankruptcy process of the plant, which,  strictly speaking, happened.