class=”abCity”> NORBERG. The fire has consumed 191 square kilometers of land and is the largest in modern times.
In the fire’s path has people fled for their lives.
Göran Gustafsson was forced to row out into the lake with her children in a rowing boat.
– I got me the most important thing. My children and myself, he says.
Firefighters John Koivisto, 29, and Philip Ohlsson, 29, has just left the fire front.
They have worked one day at a time and will now get a few hours rest:
– It is like being in several saunas while, says Philip.
The two firefighters from the rescue Norberg looks surprisingly fit out, given that they have worked in a forest area in one day:
– We have evacuated people in the northeastern part of the fire area. It’s about saving lives. We were no match for them before the actual fire, it was burning in the treetops 15 meters up, says Johan Koivisto.
“The fire just around the corner”
After the firefighters had evacuated people including Ängelsberg and The island they were sent to an airplane fire at the lake and the community snout, 15 hectares area where the fire had jumped from the main fire and an isolated fire raged.
Just north of Ängelsberg have family Gustafsson his family cottage. Yesterday, the Göran Gustafsson there with his wife Eva, sons Erik, 12, Richard, 9, and their nine year old cousin Kevin, writes TT.
In the afternoon took Eve and the eldest son the car to go home, a few hundred meters from the house, they discovered that the fire would be “further away in Sala” made it just outside.– “How can anyone be so stupid that the fires in the forest now,” I thought one second before I realized that it was the fire that was here, says Eva TT.
Dramatic Escape
She then called and warned George and the children who were left in the cottage. They threw themselves into the car.
But he flew across the top. Only 400 meters from the cottage had a burning tree has settled over the road. – The children gaped, screamed and were scared, says Göran TT.He was forced back up to the cottage where it then burned just 20 meters from the house. He runs when in panic towards the family skiff and when they shot it out in the water, they discover an older grannpar who had problems with their boat.
– I saw how he struggled with his oars in panic, so we went there and helped. We barely had time to go away from the beach before the house was in flames, says Goran TT.“Been able endangered you”
And they managed to escape through the thick smoke and get in safety, shocked but alive.
– My husband and my children could have endangered you if I’m riding a minute later, says Eva TT.
During the Tuesday afternoon also came positive responses from the emergency services.
Now they have thanks to the weather managed to extinguish part of the fire rather than just try to head back.
And just after the clock 17 reported Roger Seijsing, Director of Operations at Rescue Services Norberg that the city will not evacuated during the evening.
– Norberg’s very quiet at the moment. The fire is not moving this way right now and we have got to stop the fire at the lake snout says Seijsing.
Fredrik Reinfeldt: We have faced a trial
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt pronounce themselves now about the events in Västmanland.
– We have faced a trial. It is the largest forest fire we had in Sweden in modern times. It has led to a man lost their lives, and that animal has been putting his life. We become small before nature forces and are reminded of this, he says. The initiative has been criticized for having started at a late stage. – You have to understand the people who obviously feel they have been threatened with their lives or who are forced to abandon their home , and find that it has not received enough information. I have seen several who testified about it. Then I understand that it is critical. But there are significant resources that are in place and a professional emergency management, said Fredrik Reinfeldt, adding:– I’m impressed by the volunteer and professional efforts that many people are now doing.
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