Major fire in Station square market. Patients from nearby hospital have been safely evacuated.

That’s the old Borjomi station. I went shopping there countless times. It was always the cleanest, most orderly section of the bazaar, with the friendliest patrons. Gutted for them. Hundreds of families will have lost their livelihoods today. But it’s worth noting – that entire building was nothing but solid Soviet concrete. And vegetables don’t burn like that. I guess we will hear about an official “cause”, but it seems extremely doubtful to me that the bazaar should burn that way.