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No one was injured when two single-family houses began to burn in Bergen on New Year’s Eve.
Smoke and flames billowed from the roof of the single-family home in Ytrebygda. The police confirm that those who live at the address must have left. Photo: Eirik Brekke
Shortly after half past nine, emergency services withdrew after a report of a house fire in Steinsviken in Ytrebygda. Smoke divers were dispatched.
– There is no danger of spread, said police chief Frank Østrem shortly before ten o’clock on Thursday night.
The family living at the address has left, he confirmed.
– The job now consists of having control of the surrounding houses and taking care of the evacuees, investigating whether people have been exposed to the smoke, Østrem said.
The family that lives at the address has left. Photo: Eirik Brekke
23 evacuated neighbors
23 neighbors were evacuated after the house fire, said Police Chief Erik Hanson. Two of them were examined by health professionals. All the evacuees gathered at a nearby kindergarten.
At 11:06 p.m., the fire department announced that the fire had been extinguished.
– Two houses are uninhabitable. There are no injuries, the West Police District reports shortly after midnight.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
23 neighbors were evacuated. Photo: Eirik Brekke
New fire
Half an hour after the report of the fire in Steinsviken, a new fire was reported, now in a house in Knausen in Årstad.
Morten Frantzen, acting commander at the 110th exchange, told BT that the roof of the house was on fire.
– The fire in the attic has broken through the roof and is now burning in the roof construction. The extinction still continues, Frantzen said.
17 were evacuated
The fire brigade was in control of the fire and there was no danger of it spreading.
17 people were evacuated. So far no one has been reported injured, police say.
At 10:47 p.m., it was reported that the fire was extinguished.
