The fire broke out on the 26th April 2013 at 2:30 Moscow Time (22:30 GMT) in a psychiatric hospital near Moscow in a village called Ramenskyon which is located approximately 70 miles north of Moscow in the Moscow Oblast in European Russia. The fire ignited of the 2nd floor of the 2 storey building in a patient's bed. 3 doctors and 1 nurse ran to the bed but were burned alive immediately. The fire raged through the 2nd floor and killed everyone on that floor. 6 minutes later, the 2nd floor collapsed and crushed patients on the ground floor. 4 minutes later, the fire services reached the hospital and put out the blaze in under 3 hours. When the fire finally settled in the morning, the fire brigade broke into the building an searched for survivors but only found 3 injured people alive: a nurse or the 1st floor and 2 patients on the ground floor.