When the fire department arrived the house was overtent Newspaper Nordland

Just before four o’clock came the message about the fire in a residential building on Myrland in Hadsel municipality in Vesterålen.

emergency Services mobilised to site.

– There were two residents in the house and they were awakened by as smoothly as possible. The residents took themselves out of the burning house through a window in the second floor. House owner has been exposed to smoke and was taken into the care of paramedics, ” says operasjonsleder Tore-Magnus Børseth in the Middle Hålogaland to Lofotposten.no

According to police, there was a yrkessjåfør as notified of the fire, and when the emergency services arrived the house was so overtent that the only thing that remained was a controlled nedbrenning.

– We also had to ensure that no fire spread to the naboområder, ” says Børseth to NRK.

When the fire is out, the police will start the investigation to find deployed under a false alarm.