Fire in the Kristiansand city centre – NRK

several hours have brannfolk worked to extinguish a heavy fire in the Kristiansand city centre.

There were buildings in Henrik Wergelands gate, next to Vestre Strandgate, that burned. Emergency services were alerted about the fire around the clock 02, and it burned vigorously on the spot when the fire department came to the site.

Messages from the fire department is that they have control in the sense that it will not spread further, ” says operasjonsleder Eyvind Formo in the Agder police district by 06-time.

A house completely burned down

Several buildings were evacuated. One of them is the Thon Hotel Kristiansand.

Henrik Wergelands gate 5 is completely burnt out. Numbers seven and nine, and a warehouse in the backyard against Christian iv’s gate is probably destroyed in the fire, explains the on-duty fire chief Hans Arne Madsen.

– We now believe that we have by 06-the time stopped the fire in the transition between Henrik Wergelands gate number seven and nine, ” he says.

By 06-30-time operated the etterslukking on the site.

A policeman was slightly injured in connection with the fire. He should have gotten some buildings. He was rushed to the emergency room, but came quickly back on the job again. There are no reports of other injured or missing in connection with the fire.

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Searched on the roofs

– We have notified Kristiansand municipality, so they can prepare to take care of the evacuees. They moved tentatively to the Hotel Ernst, says operasjonsleder Eyvind Formo in the Agder police district.

Guests at the Thon hotel in The street and guests at the Comfort hotel in Skippergata is evacuated and inserted on the Ernst hotels.

Guests at both hotels have now been told that they can get back to their hotel. It is, first and foremost, the smoke hazards at the incident location, which means that guests have been evacuated, ” says Formo.

It was at one time the set into a Sea King rescue helicopter that was assigned to search the roofs of the quarter and see if someone had taken him up there, ” says Formo.

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the Smoke could be seen from a long distance. (The article continues under the video).

Fire in the Kristiansand city centre

Hotellgjesten can come back

According to TV 2 heard witnesses on the spot the powerful smell from the fire.

There is one hotel in the quarter that burns and the one club down the block. On the latter, the hotel had many guests gathered in the lobby while the fire raged. Guests were evacuated, but have now been brought back to the hotels to eat breakfast.

There are also several old wooden houses around the incident location, located in kvadraturen in downtown of the city.

Krimteknikere in place

the Police can not yet say anything about how the fire started. But they are in the time of the investigation. Krimteknikere has been on the site and will continue to work beyond Sunday.

the Police want to get in contact with people that were in the area when the fire broke out around the clock to 03.00 on the night of Sunday, and who may have information in the case.