Four homes in a terraced house was completely destroyed in a major fire Monday evening in Svedala in southern Sweden.
During Tuesday morning was still missing one person.
– we are working to find out where he is, says Anna Göransson at Skåne police.
Emergency services were alerted at 22:15 on Monday evening. Four fire stations, Stafford, Jägersrovägen, Hyllie and Svedala beodrades then to the place. Several firefighters should then for several hours fighting the fire that broke out of the roofs of the four houses. While police were on site with at least two patrols.
– They keep on working hard there right now, said Fredrik Kristell, official in emergency preparedness in Svedala, to Aftonbladet on Monday evening.
According to the local production manager at SOS Alarm in Malmö, the fire started at one end of huslängan and then spread to the rest of the houses.
Looking for contact with accommodation
SOS Alarm state even to ambulances sent to the scene but that no person should have been taken to hospital.
police said later on Tuesday morning that all four buildings have been destroyed and that the residents of the three of them have made their way out on their own. In the fourth, where the fire is believed to have started, seek the authorities still in touch.
– The fourth has not had contact with the residents, and they are working to investigate where he is, says Anna Göransson at Skåne police .
Sydsvenskan reports that neighboring longhouses have been evacuated during the night while emergency services continued to work to prevent the spread.
unclear what started the fire
After the fire-fighting lasted until 8 o’clock in the morning when the emergency services announced that it left the scene. A forensic examination will be carried out during the day.
Police had on Tuesday afternoon have not yet been able to contact the person who is missing, and can not rule out that he was in the home.
– We is inside the property now and conduct a technical study, announced Ewa-Gun Westford, communicators in the South region, at 15 o’clock in the afternoon.
when the cause of the fire is as yet unknown, the event will initially be classified as arson .
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