Crews from Vennesla, Birkirkara, Lillesand and Kristiansand come out after a scrub fire in East Agder evolved into a forest fire.
– There is a major forest fire that the fire department has no control over, says operations manager Jon Kvitnes at Agder Police Aftenposten 18.00 o’clock Thursday. – Fire helicopter has just arrived at the site. They will now try to determine the extent of the fire.
A little later, the helicopter was put into the effort to extinguish the fire. The helicopter collects water from nearby lakes and release the water over the burning forest.
Two people lit a bonfire
It all should have started when someone lit a fire. Two people who lit up this fire took himself to the emergency room in Vennesla to be checked for cairn injuries, but they have been dimitert of emergency, said Kvitnes.
The campfire was to scrub fire, which was to forest fires
The fire department was notified about a scrub fire adjacent to a cottage field in Ramselia at 13 hours yesterday, according twitter message that East Agder Fire Service has posted on its twitter account. The fire department in Vennesla and Birkenes came out.
– It has been working to limit damage to the cabin area, says Kvitnes. – As it looks now has control over the cabin area.
fire service throughout the area participating in fire fighting
The clock 15.30 could fire department report that scrub fire had evolved into a forest fire. Then we had the local fire department also received assistance from the fire department in Kristiansand. Later came the fire brigade in Lillesand with a vaktlag and sekshjuling.
– That a scrub fire developed for forest fire is not so unusual, said fire department in eastern Agder to Fædrelandsvennen.It burns in a difficult to access area
It is still unclear how big the scope is.
– It burns quite powerful and it blows a good deal, says Eddie Hoel in the fire service told NRK. – This is a tortuous terrain and a bit difficult to reach. We have not yet control.
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