On March 18, at 12:29 an emergency call was received to Shirak Regional Crisis Management Center that barn and bales of hay had been on fire on 2nd Street in Hovtun village.

One fire unit from the Fire and Rescue Squad of Regional Rescue Department of the Rescue Service of the MIA of RA dispatched to the scene.

It turned out that the fire broke out on the roof of a barn in the yard of a house (about 240 square meters).

The fire was localized at 14:46 and extinguished at 19:05. The roof (about 10 square meters) of the barn and 2500 bales of hay were partially burnt.