MOSCOW—A massive fire at a Moscow business center led to four people, including a top emergency official, getting rushed to a hospital Friday, Russian authorities said.
Emergency officials engaged 180 firefighters, dozens of vehicles, and three helicopters to combat the fire in the west of Russia’s capital.
Sergei Zheltov, the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Moscow branch, suffered a heart attack while directing the efforts to combat the blaze. A firefighter and people who were inside the building when the blaze broke out were injured.
Russia’s newly appointed emergencies minister, Alexander Kurenkov, went to the site to oversee the firefighting efforts….