A fire that killed 23 patients in a Russian psychiatric hospital raised additional concern because it followed two similar fires in 2013 that took the lives of 75 people, according to an article on the FoxNews website.
The fire started in a section of the facility dedicated to patients who were unable to walk.
Russia has a poor fire safety record with about 12,000 fire deaths reported in 2012. By comparison, the U.S., with a population roughly double Russia's, recorded around 3,000 fire deaths in 2011.
In April 2013, a small psychiatric hospital in a town outside of Moscow burned down, killing 38 people. In September 2013, a fire at a home for psychiatric patients in the Novgorod region northwest of Moscow killed 37 people. A 2006 fire at a drug treatment facility in Moscow with barred windows and locked doors killed 45.
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