Ausmat are rapid-response health teams that include doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters and allied health staff.
Flames from construction scaffolding around the bell tower, which has been under renovation, rose high above the Moscow skyline as firefighters struggled to protect one of the city's most beloved landmarks.
Firefighters were containing the blaze and "there is no danger of the fire spreading", Alexander Gavrilov, first deputy director of the Moscow branch of the emergency situations ministry, told journalists at the scene shortly after midnight.
Firefighters have been making the scene safe and gas and electricity has been isolated".
Rescue crews responding to reports of people possibly trapped on upper floors of the buildings converged quickly after the first reports of the disaster at about 3.20pm ET. Twenty minutes later, firefighters on ladders poured water on flames leaping as high as three stories from the roof of the buildings, on Second Avenue near the corner of Seventh Street.
About 260 firefighters and eight helicopters are battling the 58-hectare fire.
Buchan's fire is The Great Fire, about 1666, and Jodie Whittaker has opted for a modern drama about firefighters called The Smoke, but they probably did want a change of scene after, as Buchan describes it, "four months of grieving" on Broadchurch as the parents of murder-victim Danny.
"There were firefighters on the roof waving at the other guys to get them down because they knew it was going to go up".
RFS deputy commissioner and director of operations, Rob Rogers, said grass fires moved incredibly quickly and the highway would not be opened until firefighters had control of the fire.
Western Australia will need twice as many firefighters in 2030 to cope with increased bushfire risks caused by climate change, a report by the Climate Council has found.
During the firefighters' dispute, Tony Blair branded their leaders "Scargillite".
