On January 26, at 00:16, an alert was received that smoke was noticed at "Hotel Paris," located at 4/6 Amiryan Street in Yerevan. Two firefighting crews left for the scene. It turned out that the fire broke out in the smoke pipe of the "Kavkazskaya Plennica" restaurant located at Amiryan Street 6 (which is attached to the wall of the "Hotel Paris"). The fire was isolated at 00.51, and extinguished at 01.02.