The Ministry of Emergency Situations’ “112” hotline received a report of a fire on Davud Aslan Street in Baku’s Nizami district.
Ministry officials said the ministry’s State Fire Protection Service immediately dispatched crews to the scene, Operative Information Center-OMM reports.
Firefighters took urgent measures to prevent the blaze from spreading across a wider area and extinguished it within a short time. The fire broke out in an area where plastic and wooden materials had been stored at a non-operational meat-processing plant.
Plastic and wooden materials stored across an area of 1,800 square metres burned over 500 square metres.
The remaining materials were protected from the fire.
No one was injured.