Captain of fireboat dies, fighting to extinguish SOCAR rig fire

Lt.-Col. Vyacheslav Kryuchkov, 45, who was the first to get to the site of the accident with his Vixr-9 fireboat, was taken to hospital on Monday after days of fighting with the blaze, the Ministry of Emergencies said. His life couldn’t be saved.

Krychkov had two children.

An oil worker was killed and 29 were missing on Dec. 4 in the deadliest accident in the history of Azerbaijan’s oil industry.

The bodies of six of the missing were recovered from the see on Monday. 

The search for the remaining workers is still continuing.

The firefighters have been unable to extinguish the fire.