A major fire broke out in an apartment building on December Street in Kortedala during the night. Early morning is still ongoing fighting.
– We are past the worst, so now we and look so that it does not spread. It is fire debris and embers that fall down in the ventilation ducts, so we check, Lasse says Adrian, head of rescue operations in emergency preparedness in emergency Greater Gothenburg.
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At 23:26 were the emergency services to the apartment building on December Way to extinguish a fire in a kitchen . After the fighting ended checked vents and then discovered that the fire in the kitchen had spread to the attic.
– Those who went on the alarm was there and extinguished, but when they went up and checked the wind they saw it burned. Then it went very fast.
70 apartments had to be evacuated from eight staircases on Decembergatan 39-53 police said. In total there are about approximately 200 people.
– 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 services had staff from six stations in place during the night. – The fire-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.
The time 01:15 the police had sent all available personnel to Kortedala.
– We have a lot of people up there, says Johan Ljungberg.
Several ambulances are at the scene.
Watch 1:45 police said that all apartments are verified.
– It does not appear 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 turned into a big camp for about 200 evacuees.
– Owner Poseidon has people in place and the municipality POSOM group is active, said Johan Ljungberg.
It is still unclear how kitchen fire occurred.
– 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.
Just before 5 o’clock on Tuesday morning was around 40 firefighters from emergency still in place at the address. To limit the spread of the apartments have attic roof had to burn off. Rescue Service estimates that the fighting will continue for the rest of Tuesday.
– We are now trying to solve by this gang who have worked during the night. Considering the intensity of the fire, we will be there the rest of the day.
No injuries have been reported.
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