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Woman dies in nursing home fire

One woman died in an apartment fire that broke out at a senior citizen facility in Enskede just south of Stockholm late Friday night.

Published: 30 April 2011 08:57 CEST

Another person was taken to the hospital for injuries from smoke inhalation and five others were treated by emergency personnel on the scene, reports news agency TT.

The apartment that burnt was on the eleventh floor and spread to the floors above and below. All three floors were smoke-filled.

A fireman was injured in the hand during the rescue operation and was taken to the hospital, reports Newspaper Aftonbladet.

It is unclear what caused the fire that started just before 11.00pm Friday night. It took firemen an hour to put out the fire.

“Police investigators will start their work when they can enter the apartments,” Mats Kömer, rescue leader with the Stockholm Fire Department, told Aftonbladet.

Residents living on the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors were evacuated.

Police and firemen from two departments responded to the emergency and an ambulance helicopter was on the scene as well.

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Why have there been so many fires in Copenhagen this year?

Thursday’s fire at Denmark’s tax ministry follows a blaze at the historic Old Stock Exchange and several fires at the headquarters of pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk on the outskirts of Copenhagen.

Published: 27 June 2024 15:11 CEST
Why have there been so many fires in Copenhagen this year?

A fire broke out on Thursday morning on the roof of the building which houses Denmark’s Tax Ministry in central Copenhagen, which fire services in the capital were able to put out shortly afterwards.

The Tax Ministry fire is at least the fifth high-profile blaze in and around Copenhagen since April, following three at different buildings owned by pharma giant Novo Nordisk and the devastating fire which turned parts of the historic Old Stock Exchange (Børsen) to rubble.

The high number of fires occurring within a relatively short period appears to be down to no more than chance, Jens Kastvig, an expert with the Danish Society of Engineers said to newswire Ritzau.

“There’s always a risk that a fire can break out in a building,” Kastvig said, noting that the average annual fire rate is around one per 100,000 to 150,000 square metre of building.

“That could be anything from a smaller to a larger fire,” he said.

Kastvig said that he initially guessed the Tax Ministry fire was the result of renovation work.

Both Børsen and the Novo Nordisk buldings were also undergoing renovations at the time of their fires. This increases the risk of fire breaking out in a more flammable material such as bitumen waterproofing, or a fire otherwise related to the ongoing work.

No renovations were ongoing at the Tax Ministry however, the building’s owner ATP Ejendomme has confirmed.

“The fire services are busy at the moment. But I hope it’s a coincidence,” Kastvig said.

Tim Ole Sørensen of the Copenhagen Fire Service, Hovedstadens Beredskab, said on Thursday that there was no suggestion that the fires were related.

“There’s nothing that indicates any form of connection at all to us, and we are talking about very different businesses and types of building,” he said.

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