The alarm came at a quarter to one, the night of Thursday, and pretty soon it was clear that it was a fully developed fire in multi-family property on Vickervägen.
The fire started in an apartment and has since spread to adjacent apartments.
– There must be a strong fire, and right now we are working and emergency services to evacuate the property, says Urban Dahlbäck, duty officer at the police station in Östersund at 01 o’clock.
Emergency Services, ambulance and several police patrols are in place at the multi-family house is on two floors with a total of twelve apartments.
a total of around 30 people working in the rescue work during the fire.
Just before three o’clock, Lars Nyman on the emergency state that it was full speed on the fire, and they do not have it under control yet.
– I just got the news that it has found a deceased person taken from the property, says he continues:
– the residents in the building have been evacuated and a community center opened on Ärtvägen where police and insurance representatives are in place.
According to Lars Nyman, none of the residents in the affected house to return.
the fire-ravaged home barracks risk burning down and there is also risk of the spread to adjacent properties. At three o’clock was the emergency, however, considered that they did not need to be evacuated.
The cause of the fire is not known.
– It is still too early to say anything about, says Urban Dahlbäck, duty officers of the police in Ostersund.
police initially headlining the event as arson.
– it is because we have not found any obvious reason why the fire started. The place is cordoned off and we will do a technical study as soon as possible, says Urban Dahlbäck.
At 4:30 pm, Lars Nyman announce that the emergency services had the fire under control.
– the ongoing after extinguishing of some smoldering fires. However, we have to limit the fire to the property and the contagion risk is now considered over, he says.
The affected residential wing, according to Lars Nyman, currently considered to be uninhabitable. Accommodation in seven of the twelve apartments have got hotel rooms and the other has arranged accommodation issue on their own.
In all lived somewhere between 20 and 25 people in the property.
In addition to the deceased person has another two people injured in the fire. They have been taken to hospital with what was described as minor injuries, one with burns to the hand and the other with smoke damage.
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