The production of cryptocurrencies caused a fire in the village of Baklashi of the Irkutsk Region, where a one -story residential building burned down, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said.

A message about a fire in a private house was received on the night of March 20. Take -offs, a fireman and local volunteers were sent to the fight against fire. By the time the rescuers arrived at the scene, the house was almost completely covered by fire, the roof and ceiling floors collapsed. At least 80 square meters of the total area of ​​the house burned down, firefighters were able to only save neighboring buildings from fire, the Ministry of Emergencies said.

After the liquidation of fire, the investigators of the Ministry of Emergencies found in a burned house equipment for mining cryptocurrencies. The circumstances of the incident are established.

The Ministry of Emergencies said that the placement of equipment for mining crypto acts outside of special sites is extremely dangerous, as it can lead to such destructive fires.

Earlier, the prosecutor’s office of the Irkutsk region said that in the village of Cossack Bokhansky district, the local non -profit organization equipped a mining farm of 96 devices in a non -residential building, where an orphanage was previously located.