Large attic fire in apartment block in Kortedala – Göteborg – Göteborgs-Posten – Göteborgs-Posten

A major fire rages at a time in an apartment building on December Street in Kortedala.

The 70 apartments have been evacuated from eight staircases on Decembergatan 39-53 police said.

– It burns the entire building. It smashing up through the roof, says Johan Ljungberg, deputy spokesman at the police.

The police helped by a one-time emergency evacuation.

– We have opened Utmarksskolan for the evacuees. We go around the house and open all doors and examine that none are left in the house.

The rescue staff from six stations in place. Fighting will last all night, says the extremely busy the staff at the rescue command center, which state that it is a 200 meter long house that is on fire.

police sent all available staff Kortedala.

– We have a lot of people up there, says Johan Ljungberg to gp.se at 1:15.

Several ambulances are at the scene.

The clock 01:45 police said that all apartments are verified.

– It does not seem that any person coming to harm. It is of course gratifying, says Johan Ljungberg.

At the controls of the apartments got many doors broken.

– People ran out and locked himself in. Then we could not take any chances, so it was quite a lot of doors were broken up, says Heather.

At 02 o’clock began Utmarksskolan turn into a great time for the many evacuees .

– Owner Poseidon has people in place and the municipality POSOM group is active, said Johan Ljungberg.

The fire rages in the same house where the clock 23:26 came the alarms at a kitchen. The fire was under emergency services more or less off when the rescue team arrived.

At midnight, reported the rescue services that work was with venting smoke.

It is unclear whether this is the fire flared up again. Possibly, sparks from the fire, which started on a stove in an apartment on the building’s top floor, have gone up in the fan system and gained a foothold in the attic.

– I do not know how it happened. We received the alarm from Decembergatan 49 that it had been burned in a kitchen. Then we got a sudden alarm if fully developed fire and that we needed to evacuate eight staircases, says Johan Ljungberg on the police.