Fire Station №6 (Prypiat)

Ukraine / Kyyivska / Prypyat / Prypiat / vulytsia Lesi Ukrainky, 11
 fire service, abandoned / shut down, 1970s construction
Excellent photographic report at: www.urbanxphotography.co.uk/pripyat-fire-station
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Coordinates:   51°24'1"N   30°3'6"E

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  • Contrary to popular belief most of the firemen who died were not from the power plant's fire station but from here. The notable exception is Lt Pavik, who was from the plant and joined the men from Pripyat on the roof of Unit Four. These brave men, clothed only in the coveralls and boots of traditional Soviet firefighters and without other protection, extinguished the fires on the roof thereby preventing their spread to the other three still operating reactors in what would have been a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. Radiation fields where they worked were in the area of 20,000 rem/hr, enough to cause a lethal dose within minutes. Most of these heroes are buried in Moscow.
  • I heard that they were from here too.
  • very brave men. my heart goes out to any surviving family members.
  • isn't 500 rem/hr a lethal dose?
  • A sad story I was told by my instructor there. When this May my group visited Pripyat our instructor made a stop here and he said: "Look! see there's a fire station, see the garage-doors are open! They were opened 22 years ago and the first firebrigades to arrive to the nuclear plant were from here. But noone returned alive. And in the memory of those heroes no one dares to touch these doors!"
  • Why "Fire Station № 38"? This Fire Station № 6, sity Pripyat.
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