You may be thinking "How did they do that and not be burned alive" Well the answer is
The surgery continued thanks to an emergency electricity cable run into the ground-floor operating theatre as fans kept the smoke out. -BBC News
Don't worry the patient was evacuated after the procedure
There's nothing else we could do. We had to save the person. We did everything at the highest level -Lead surgeon Valentin Filatov
The hospital was built in 1907 during the reign of the Tsar which is why it looks the way it does. It also contributed to how quick the fire spread cause of the wooden ceilings. It is thought that a short circuit started the fire.
During the whole event there was apparently no panic or stress among the 8 doctor performing the surgery.
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