the Situation is starting slowly to return to normal in Tjällmo outside Linköping, where a forest fire ravaged since last Monday.
the Night to in the day Monday, had a civil protection force has shrunk to 20 people, in the first instance, had the task to go around in the area and ensure that no new fires flare up. The emergency services themselves describe the situation over the weekend as ”very quiet”.
“We have had some minor fires that flared up, but we have been many on the site that has been able to knock down these fires quite quickly,” says Daniel Agerhult, internal command of the emergency services in the Eastern Region.
the emergency meeting of the state council, and according to Daniel Agerhult, it can be about to transfer släckningsansvaret to the landowners.
– You will of course to a limit where the landowner himself has the opportunity to take over responsibility and manage the situation with the equipment owner. Then you do a handover where we inform the owner about what needs to be done, what equipment he needs and so on, ” says Daniel Agerhult.
Up to 300 hectares of forest land may have been touched by the fire, which, however, should have spared the people and the buildings. Both the emergency services, the home guard and the defence have participated in the fighting, according to Daniel Agerhult, ”unusually large fire”. Even if the coast getting clearer so it might be necessary for emergency services to attend also after that the owner regained responsibility for their land.
” We’ll certainly be there a few days to make it here together with the owner of the land. It is usually a good way to do this, ” says internal command Daniel Agerhult.
at Monday’s meeting so can the emergency services expect to be in the continue in Tjällmo. Hoses and equipment must be gathered, a ”big order,” according to Daniel Agerhult. However, he sees the lighter in the near future when it comes to outlook.
– Even if it remains very dry in the forest and the land so I find it a little quieter. Right now we have no other ongoing effort in addition to the in Tjällmo, but it is calm in other parts of Östergötland. Now is the winds pretty please as well and will well to be there in the beginning of the week in all cases, which we are very excited, ” says Daniel Agerhult.
