Description: On April 14, 1993 a major fire occurred at the largest truck plant
in Europe, this being the Kamski plant in Russia (KamAZ is the
Russian acronym which we will use in the rest of the report). The
fire was finally contained after a week of enormous effort. Even
though there were no fatalities as a result of the disaster, it is
probably the worst in the car industry both in the former Soviet
Union and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), and one of
the largest scale technological disasters in Russia in the 1990s.
