Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Heavy fire in the Royal college of art – financial times

Firefighters from six stations during the night, tried to put out the fire in ruca premises.

People in the area are advised to go indoors and close all doors, windows and ventilation.

the Fire department has gone to the hole in the roof to let out the combustion gas. In the morning, burned the wind is still with open flames.

“the Fire is not under control,” says Johan Winsnes, ledningsoperatör at ssbf.

At 16 o’clock on onsdagseftermiddagen alerted the police, rescue and ambulance services about a fire on the fourth floor of the Royal the academy’s premises at the Modern museum on Skeppsholmen. According to the ssbf, it was boxes and junk that had begun to burn.

Less than an hour later, the fire extinguished, wrote the police on its website. But then the situation deteriorated and the fire flared up again. Late on Wednesday night, was still some 50 firefighters on site to fight the flames.

Taking out the smoke

” We’ve got a fire spreading that we’re working with right now. It burns properly in the attic and it is not yet under control”, says Jonas Fröjmark, ledningsförman at ssbf.

According to the ledningsförman Johan Winsnes, it is not possible to say how much of the building can be saved.

– In the normal case, we could send up smoke that works from the inside, but we have chosen to pick them out because there is a certain rasrisk in the building. With the reason of it can the fire spread down the building. At the moment we have the fire under control, which means that we can’t tell how much of the building we can save.

During the evening blew ssbf hole in the building’s roof.

– It is a technique we use to get rid of brandgaserna in the attic and on the second floor, ” says Johan Winsnes.

Smoke feels far away

At 23-the time had the fire "calmed down considerably", according to the greater Stockholm fire department.

– It stays upstairs in the attic and floor four. We are right now with some rotations, they have been there and struggled for a long time now so we need to bring in fresh arms and legs. When it is finished we hope to be able to walk properly again, ” says Johan Winsnes.

Shortly after the clock 04 was the fire still not under control. About 40 firefighters worked throughout the night but on the its keep burning it still in the wind with open flames. The ceiling has crumbled down and settled over the flames, which makes the situation hard to work with.

According to the greater Stockholm fire department has smoke during the evening, spread over large parts of the city.

– The feels by a long shot, but it’s not dangerous, ” says Johan Winsnes.

In a so called VMA (Important message to the general public) are invited all that are in the area to go indoors and close all doors, windows and ventilation.

the SOS Alarm has received a number of calls about smoke from fires.

An operator at SOS Alarm, saying that the afternoon sent three ambulances to the site.

” But we have no information on injuries.

Started in the studio

ruca, property manager Peter Jansson, have in the evening been inside on the ground floor of the building and made a first assessment of the damage.

– There is a lot of damage, it is fire damage, but right now it is actually the most water damage.

the Machines have been destroyed and pretty much paper since we are concerned with the graphics, but it does not seem to be so many works of art destroyed, but rather things that should be works of art, ” he says.

the Fire should have started in a studio, where there were few students. A teacher sounded the alarm to Peter Jansson, who found the fire by following the smell.

” I went into the room, but it was so smoke-filled, so I saw nothing and heard no when I called. Then I ran and fetched a fire extinguisher, but when I came back it was too hot so then I looked to get people from the rest of the building, ” he says.

the Venue is 1 500 square meters large and are not expected to be able to be used until about half a year up to one year.

“It is very sad, we have to hurt on the premises right now and we now have a large building that we can’t use,” he says.

Police have launched a preliminary investigation on the allmänfarlig negligence.

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