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LAST AT 18.36: The fire is off.
"It looks like everyone has recovered," Rune Hunshamar, head of operations in the Southeast Police District, told RUN at 6:00 pm.
It was the firefighters who reported the fire for the first time just before 5pm Tuesday afternoon, then a strong smoke was released in much of the city.
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Red Cross help
– Skien station and Porsgrunn go to the fire at the king's door, they announce via Twitter just before 17:00.
It looks like there is an apartment building in the passage of the Kongens Gate / Holberg Gate which is burning.
In the 17th century, the Skien Red Cross also announced that the bränngruppa is helping.
A lot of smoke
– The Skien Red Cross lights the fire in the barracks of King & # 39; s Gate and the Porsgrunn fire department.
At 5:17 pm, the police chief indicates that they are in place.
– Emergency services are on site and fire departments are extinguishing the fire. There is a lot of smoke in the area.
Three-storey building
The director of operations, Rune Hunshamar, said the building was a fire, a three-story townhouse.
– The road around the building is closed. And it seems that all the people living in the building have come out, "said Hunshamar.
At 5:40 pm, the police report that the fire department has amortized the fire a lot, but that smoke still emerges from the fire.
Go out yourself
There was more people out after the fire.
"We do not have an idea of how many people lived in this building, but it looks like everyone has recovered." They were out when the police arrived, said Hunshamar.
The police are now trying to find out what really happened.
"Branvesenet says they control the fire," he says.
uninhabited
The building that burned must have been uninhabited, says the operations manager.
– The electricity and water were closed. There should not be anyone who has lived in the building now.
Just after 6:30 pm, Hunshamar announces that the fire is out.
– The town hall fire is off, but it is underway and will last late into the night.
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