1997 MIR Space Station fire - CNN report

CNN report on Russia sending a cargo ship to MIR Space Station after the February fire (CNN - 4th july 1997 - approx. 4.5 months after fire)
Initial news item: Fire Doused On Mir Space Station - February 24, 1997
A small fire broke out on Russia's Mir orbiting space station, but the crew--which includes an American astronaut--quickly put it out, space officials said Monday. An air purification unit caught fire Sunday night and the crew doused it with fire extinguishers, said Rufina Amosova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Space Mission Control Center. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the fire, although space officials believe a manufacturing flaw was to blame, Amosova said. She said the fire did not interrupt the space station's electric supply or cause any serious damage. A similar fire in 1994 led to an electrical blackout that lasted several hours on the space station, now 11 years old and currently home to four Russians, one American and a German.

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This has nothing to do with the fire. It's about repairs after the collision with Progress.