– It is quiet at the fire station now. But there is still smoke, says Petter Vinje Svendsen, emergency manager at the Østre Agder Fire Service.
Late on Monday evening, a sea of flames met the fire brigade when they arrived at the building where a painting workshop was located. The building is located close to county road 410 Kystveien in Saltrød.
NRK has been in contact with the owner of the building. He was at the site last night and is shaken by the incident.
– I see a drone photo in Agderposten no. I’m a bit shaken, and don’t feel like talking to anyone now, says the owner.
This is what the fire site looks like the day after the dramatic fire.
Photo: Erik Wiig Andersen / NRK
Don’t know anything about the cause
Just after 11pm last night, the police reported that the building had caught fire. They say it is too early to say anything about the cause of the fire.
– First it has to be extinguished, then further investigations will be carried out when the fire scene has completely cooled down, says Jarle Nilsen, head of operations at the Agder police.
An industrial building at Saltrød in Arendal was completely damaged in a fire on Monday evening.
Photo: Olav Svaland / Freelancer
– Now we have brought in an excavator, which will turn around and remove building parts that have fallen down in order to extinguish them properly, says Vinje Svendsen.
The fire service will continue with this throughout the morning.
The road past the town was closed from Monday evening until just after nine on Tuesday morning.
Two in neighboring buildings were evacuated
The police say the owner of the building was at the scene of the fire last night. In addition to the painting workshop, there will be more people working in the building.
– It was clarified early on from the owner that there were no people in the building. Two people from a neighboring building were evacuated and found an alternative place for the night, says Nilsen.
It was a sea of flames that met the fire brigade on Monday evening.
Photo: Olav Svaland / Freelancer
It is a large steel and concrete building that has now been lost. Half the building has collapsed. Everything inside the building is burnt out. Early in the extinguishing phase, there was a risk of the fire spreading to cars parked nearby.
– There is no danger of spreading now. We extinguished the fire within a good hour, says Vinje Svendsen.
There are large amounts of value that have been lost in the fire, as well as several jobs.
Fire crews from Arendal, Moland and Grimstad were sent to the fire station last night, reported 110 Agder.
Everything inside the industrial building is completely damaged after the fire.
Photo: Erik Wiig Andersen / NRK
2023-10-10 07:21:15
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