The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia reports that today at 7:44 p.m. the National Center for Crisis Management received an alarm according to which a grassy area was burning at the park near Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial.

Three rescue squads of Yerevan Rescue Department left for the scene and declared that it was difficult to extinguish the fire, and another rescue squad left for the scene.

Director of the Rescue Service Armen Gasparyan is also at the park.