Four people have not been accounted for after an older wooden house in Svelvik in Drammen municipality burned down completely on Monday night.
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It was at 02.30 on Monday night that the police reported a large fire in a residential house in the far south of Drammen municipality.
– Flames come out of windows on the ground floor, they wrote then.
During the night, the fire brigade tried for several hours to put out the powerful fire, but at 05.16 the police found that the house had burned down completely.
Then they also wrote that they had not been in contact with the four people registered at the address.
In a press release just before 08 o’clock, police station chief Øyvind Aas at Drammen police station says that it is too early to say anything about the possible cause of the fire.
To VG, he says that the police fear that the four were inside the house when it burned.
– The reason we go out with our concern is that we have not been in contact with them – and we have no indications that they have been elsewhere.
– If four people have died in the fire, then this is a deeply tragic incident.
The residents’ next of kin have been notified of the fire.
Moved with all of the resources
The fire service was notified of the fire at 02.21.
– We moved out with what we had of resources from several stations, says duty officer Harald Kleppo at Sør-Øst 110-central to VG at 07.30.
He continues:
– It was overheated when we arrived at the place.
Kleppo does not want to say anything about the further course.
– We are still on site and doing post-extinguishing, he says.
Police station chief Aas tells VG that the house was not possible to save.
–– Affects the entire community
The management and the crisis team in Drammen municipality have been notified and are in the process of implementing the necessary measures, police station chief Aas states.
Mayor Monica Myrvold Berg in Drammen municipality tells VG in the morning that the municipality will assist as far as possible.
– We assist where we can, also with crisis teams if necessary. But the situation is now handled by the police, while we are briefed along the way, she says.
She adds:
– Berger is a small community, where most people know each other. So this is a fire that is affecting the whole community to a very large extent. It is therefore important that you take care of each other in a difficult time, at the same time as the municipality’s services must be available to those who need it.
The mayor happened to be up after she struggled to sleep last night. Then she discovered several messages about the fire on her mobile phone. What the municipality can assist with is to take care of those involved with crisis teams, as well as practical tasks, she says.
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