The first alarm about the worst forest fire in modern times came 31 July.
But the firefighters were delayed 45 minutes – because of GPS, according to Sveriges Radio Caliber.
The fire in Västmanland is the largest in Sweden in modern times. Now reveals Swedish Radio Caliber that response time to first alarm was an hour – instead of 25 minutes.
because of the GPS.
– What happened when we went out was to the position we were led our GPS computers down a different path, says Fredrik Eriksson, fire engineer who finally found the fire, the Caliber.
When the alarm came, the fire was 30 times 30 feet high. When the firemen found the front was nearly 500 meters by 1000 meters high, according to the Caliber.
We are now investigating how much rescue delay affected the fighting.
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