Messy start to the new year

"The new year started as the old ended – much mess and rockets and firecrackers that were directed in the wrong direction."

"In Gothenburg were the emergency services called out to several fires and in the south of Stockholm, stopped commuter trains during a short period of time."

"It was burning in several locations around Gothenburg when 2019 was called – and smälldes – in. Police and emergency services got called out on a number of alarms of fires."

"In Angered the northeastern part of the city there was a strong fire."

"Where are the people who have jumped from the window in the property which is on fire," says Morten Gunneng, the duty officer at the police in the western region, to the GT."

"– It is an apartment which burned. The damage is limited. Those who jumped were those who lived in the other apartments. They made their own evacuation of the house. No one was injured."

"in Addition, it was reported a total of 17 fires in cars and containers in Gothenburg during the first two hours. How many caused by the fireworks, however, was unclear."

"Stop for the commuter"

"At the train station in Haninge, sweden, started a number of people fight and when they came down on the tracks stopped the tågledningen all the traffic that passed through the station, both north - southbound. Tågstoppet was lifted 01.20 and the traffic is reported to re-roll as normal. The police could not declare if someone is injured in the scuffle."

"Even Rågsveds metro station was closed for a short time because of the brawl, and the trains had to run past without stopping."

"– There were gangs of youths who shot rockets at each other and ordningsvakterna and it was not possible to maintain the security, " says Eva Nilsson, presstalesperson at the police, to the TT."

"During the first hours of the Russian and even the police with rockets and firecrackers at several places in Stockholm."

"– There have been several such incidents after midnight, " says Eva Nilsson."

"No injuries have been reported."

"In Malmö, sweden shot a rocket into an apartment barely an hour before the stroke of midnight. When the emergency services came to the place and burned it as well inside the apartment on the balcony. No person was however in the apartment. It was the second rocket that came out of an apartment in the city during the evening."

"– are In some way the rocket entered through the balcony, if it has broken a pane, I don't know, " says Torbjörn Krokström, rescue service South to the new york times."

"Around the country, it has also been reported on a number of spisbränder."

"In the suburb of Tensta in Stockholm called the emergency services to an apartment with an anticipated fire. It turned out to be a small fire on a stove that was under control."

"Also in Karlstad and Kristianstad was alerted about similar incidents. In Karlstad, had two boys taken to hospital with minor injuries after they themselves extinguished the fire. Even the fire in the city of Kristianstad was put out by the people in the apartment."

"– It was a minor spisbrand, someone who failed with their cooking, " says Lars-Åke Lindell, smc at the fire department in Broby, to Kristianstadsbladet."