Fires: in a residential building, in the Leningrad Regional Institute for Teacher Training (formerly the Yusupov Palace), in the Catherine Palace in Pushkin (photographs), in the library of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation (newsreel), at an oil refinery in Kirishi (newsreel). Eyewitnesses and firefighters tell (synchronously). The actions of firefighters when extinguishing fires: they arrive in fire trucks, raise the retractable ladder, unfold the hoses, take the victims out, extinguish the fire.