Several aircraft lost in the fire at Skien airport – VG

SKIEN/OSLO (VG) the Fire department starts to control the fire in a hangar at Skien airport on the night of Thursday.

emergency Services responded to the fire at Geiteryggen airport the clock 00.23.

– It burns in a hangar with several older aircraft belonging to a flying club. According to the fire department on site, there is a widespread, large fire. Several aircraft seem to be lost, but there is no injury, ” says operasjonsleder Jørn Gustav Larsen in the South-East police district to the VG.

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A short time later confirming the police on Twitter that several aircraft are lost in the fire, and that three people are evacuated from nearby houses.

– When the fire department came, it was full, the guy in the lowest part of the building, and the fire had spread to the slightly higher part. There was little that could be saved, and we attempted first and foremost to prevent the spread. A fly was pulled away from the building, and could thus be saved, while the planes that have been in the hangar is lost, ” says fire chief Guttorm Liebe in Skien fire service to the vg’s reporter on the spot.

ON the SPOT: fire chief Guttorm Liebe in Skien fire service.

Photo:, Ole N. OIsen, VG

He tells at 02.45-time that they have control of the fire. Neither the fire department or the police can currently say anything about deployed under a false alarm, but a hundepatrulje is sent to site to investigate the possible slots.

– Hundepatruljen is there to see if anyone has taken into or out of the area the last time. It is a to keep all options open. It is too early to say anything about the cause of the fire. Currently excludes we are nothing, ” says Larsen.

He says the fire department is going to continue with slukningsarbeidet into the night. Thursday morning begins politet with technical investigations, and with the questioning of the person who reported the fire.

– There is talk about a large fire, and large values have been lost, ” says Larsen.

severe DAMAGE: Several aircraft were lost in the fire at Geiteryggen airport on the night of Thursday.

Photo:, Ole N. Olsen, VG

The municipal-owned airport is used among other things to the luftsport. It has not been passasjerruter to and from Geiteryggen since June of last year. Then let the Aircraft down its route to Bergen.

Source: VG/NTB