The Parts of a vedfabrik in Rätan destroyed in a fire during Friday evening. Heavy bangs were heard when gas cylinders exploded. But no person shall have been injured.
Emergency services from RS, Ostersund, Svenstavik and ridges were alerted to vedfabriken at 20 o’clock on Friday evening.
– It is terrible, is in flames, said Petra Karlsson, who lives in Rätan when P4 Jämtland talking to her at 21:45 o’clock.
Several powerful explosions were heard during evening, believed to be gas cylinders exploded.
– Half the factory building is completely destroyed, the other half has large fire damage. But we have managed to rescue the living areas and large stocks of softwood, says Theresa Gustafsson, internal officers of civil protection in Ostersund to P4 Jämtland at 00.30 o’clock.
She says that building, which houses a company that cuts and packages the wood is 2000 square meters.
The cause of the fire is still unclear.
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