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Fire at electrical substation on Tsitsernakaberd Highway in Yerevan

Sept 2026Published 29 Sept 2026Responsible editor: Chief Editor

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What happened

A fire broke out on 27 September 2026 at an electrical substation on Tsitsernakaberd Highway in Yerevan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs received a report at 17:07. Eleven firefighting and rescue crews were sent. The fire was contained at 20:10 and extinguished at 21:10. The Investigative Committee of Armenia reported that criminal proceedings had been opened under Article 264, Part 2, Clauses 2 and 6 of the Criminal Code, concerning destruction or damage of property by arson, explosion or other publicly dangerous means resulting in especially large-scale property damage. An investigative team was formed. Injuries, outages and the cause were not reported.

Lessons learned

  1. Substation fire response plans should assume several hours may be needed to contain and extinguish a fire, and should record call and arrival times.
  2. Site evidence should be preserved once emergency crews have made the area safe, because investigators may open proceedings before a technical cause is known.
  3. Operators should not treat the opening of proceedings, or the statutory description of the offence, as a finding of cause or of the scale of loss.

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Source

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Published 2026-09-29. Written from public reporting. Descriptive, not investigative. See the data accuracy disclaimer.

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