Protection zones around forest fires

"The great fire outside Gislaved has stabilized. During the night, have a work with the fire focused on limiting the risk of proliferation."

"Even at the fire outside of Motala, the emergency service has worked mostly with security."

"Several land and forest fires have been raging in the country during the easter weekend. The largest, outside of Gislaved, stabilized during the Monday night, and the rescuers saw less flames and smoke."

"During the night, the work focused on limiting the risk of proliferation, and a 10-15 meter wide protection zone around the fire was established."

"We have to focus on to call in the fire, it is too dangerous to go into the area when it is dark," says Gunnar Hansson, internal command at the Emergency services Jönköping, sweden, to the TT."

"Several fires in the area."

"the Strategy also means that the strength of the place could be reduced from around 60 people to almost 30 during the night. According to Gunnar Hansson will the workforce to increase again during the morning, when the daylight comes."

"Then påskdagskvällen has no less than three fires ravaged around Gislaved. The emergency services can't see any natural explanation for the fires, why the police is now investigating if they can be landscaped. But during the night burned there no one else in the Jönköping county."

" No, we have no other fires in the county, and we are grateful for that. We need to mobilize staff from around the county to manage this fire, " says Gunnar Hansson."

"Then påskdagskvällen has no less than three fires ravaged around Gislaved. The emergency services can't see any natural explanation for the fires, why the police is now investigating if they can be landscaped."

"Even with the fire at Tjällmo, north of Motala in Östergötland, the emergency services set up a bevakningszon and limited fighting the fire during the night."

"– It can be a bit dangerous to go into the area when it is dark and you can't see properly, " says Ulf Asplund at the emergency services in the eastern Region of sweden, to the TT."

"the Fire on around four hectares is raging in a difficult access area and the fire department took the help of the Defence forces helicopter to get an overview of the area. During the day it can according to the Motala Vadstena Tidning be appropriate to vattenbomba the area with the help of the helicopter from the Helikopterflottiljen."

" It is good to fly in the dark but it is difficult to see what is on the ground, for example, where the firemen are. It's a safety issue, " says Lasse Jansson, head of corporate communications at Helikopterflottiljen, to the newspaper."

"Around the city of Kristianstad in Skåne, sweden, was burnt in several places. A nearly two thousand square meters area in the vicinity of the lake Raslången burned during Monday, and was extinguished in the afternoon. Not long after came the alarm about three different fires at the Tormestorp in the same municipality. The fires were reported to be extinguished, and late in the evening, writes Kristianstadsbladet."

"SMHI warns of fire risk in the whole of Götaland and Svealand."