Three to the hospital in fire – Expressen

At five o’clock in the julaftonsmorgonen completely destroyed an apartment in Lidköping in a fire.

Three people have been hospitalized.

– the Landlord must have fallen asleep from a cigarette, ” says Martin Kihlsten of the police in Skövde.

Julaftonsmorgonen was early when the emergency services had to rush to an apartment in Lidköping. It had begun to burn. Brandorsaken is, according to the police in Skövde, a osläckt cigarette.

– the Landlord has fallen asleep from a cigarette on the couch. On the table lay the paper and somehow spread the fire, ” says Martin Kihlsten, stationsbefäl of the police in Skövde.

Smoke was violent.

” It was so brandvarnarna went in the apartments next door. The apartment is completely destroyed by both the fire and the smoke, ” says Ove Karlsson.

Three to the hospital

In the apartment there was a person who was taken to hospital by ambulance. A further two people in the same staircase has also been included there.

– the Person who lived in the apartment could get out of it. We have been there and extinguished and ventilated the other apartments in the staircase, ” says Ove Karlsson.

” We were seven pieces on the spot.

Got smoke damage

Skadeläget is unclear. According to the police, to the landlord had smoke damage.

– It says that the other two persons also have breathed in the smoke, said Ulla Brehm, police presstalesperson.

A preliminary investigation on the allmänfarlig negligence is initiated.

” It was very smoke-filled. The emergency services have left and so have we, ” says Martin Kihlsten at nine o’clock in the morning.