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The fire department reported on the forest fire at Liansheia in Froland at 3 pm Tuesday. The fire is under development.
Fire Chief Hans H. Bakke said Tuesday in Aftenposten that the firefighter helicopter was depleting.4
– We estimate that about 90 targets have burned and partially burned. We have a helicopter on site that is about to drop water and 22 men are on site. We have water in the area, and for now, it looks pretty good.
Kl. At 9:10 pm, NTB reported that the fire department had received control of the fire.
– Now it seems like the wind has been lying a little, and there is currently no danger of spreading to the colonies, "says Bakke.
Bakke says the forest fire may have started with lightning. There was a great thunder activity in Froland on Monday
New fire in Risør
In the fire department, Froland's fire control caused a fire in a landfill in Risør in the same county . The smoke is so powerful that we can see it until the center of Risør
– We are afraid of the forest behind the manure. It burns near the forest, says chief Hans Jørgen Næss
30,000 targets brant
Tuesday's forest fires are not far from an area of Froland where he burned 30,000 targets in 2008. [19659002] – It's dry and not particularly green and cool where it burned in 2008. If this forest fire reaches there, there is a risk that the fire will intensify violently, "Terje Rømyr said. , deputy head of NTB
Bakke told Aftenposten worried "for the broadcast of your:
– this is a situation we have feared.I can see the region where he burned ten years ago from where I am now.
Storms create a fire risk
Norway is at its worst during the 71-year summer plunge. still high temperatures and, so to speak, no precipitation have caused an increased risk of forest fire this summer. So the danger is worsening that the Meteorological Institute is now issuing more danger warnings, reports NTB.
– Trøndelag's inland expanses south of Trondheimsfjorden, the inner regions of western Norway south of the city, Hedmark and Oppland can wait for lightning alternately on Tuesday and Wednesday, says meteorologist Elbjørg Moxnes at 39. ; ONT. In addition, there were several small fires in the forest and the land in Agder. All the fires were probably caused by lightning.
The fire risk at Agder is so high that Agder County fire chiefs have withdrawn all the exemptions granted in connection with forestry.
Innlandet Alarmcentral, which operates in two of the counties that have now been notified of danger, has stated that they are waiting.
– Unfortunately, it is expected that there will be a storm just after the warm periods, says Trond Brenden, chief of department
The chief of the department said to have registered a number in Hedmark and Oppland this year, but stresses that this increase is also taking place at the national level.
– We have seven airlines that help monitor forest fires. There is a plane in the air right now. Plus, people are good at saying that we get off the fire early. So we did not have big forest fires here, only small fires, he said.
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