Three people died in an apartment building fire in Krasnogorsk, the Moscow Region, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry's regional department told Itar-Tass. The information about the fire in a flat in a 17-storey building in Pushkin Street was received at 03:55 Moscow time on Saturday. Firemen extinguished the blaze in a few hours. More than 40 people were evacuated. The bodies of a man and two women were found in the burning flat.