Large parts of Sjælland in the morning and morning hours on Friday, hit by a heavy storm, which in several places were registered as a torrential rain.
But where many places were primarily the quantity of water, which was a nuisance, led the storm in the small town of Sæby at Kirke Hyllinge northwest of Roskilde, that the fire department had to come out and help with additional water.
Thus it was, by all accounts, a bolt of lightning, was the cause of the outbreak of fire in a former school in the city.
the Building has a thatched roof inside under a steel roof, and we suspect that it is a lightning, which has been the thatched roof to catch fire, says press officer Martin Bjerregaard from the Middle – and West zealand Police.
the Notification about the fire came at 9.39. According to Martin Bjerregaard will be bygningeni day used for something other than school, and there was, therefore, persons in the building when the fire broke out.
– But they came out in good order, so there is only material damage. The fire department got the better of the flames after about an hour, he says.
Apart from that one lightning strike has the storm only in one case offered extra work for the police and emergency personnel at the Middle – and west zealand.
So says Martin Bjerregaard, a motorist drove the wrong on the highway at Roskilde as a result of aquaplanning in connection with the heavy rains. Everyone in the car escaped also on this occasion unscathed.