Tag: fires
Bus fire forced tunnel evacuation, five injured
UPDATED: A Swedish bus carrying Asian tourists caught fire inside the 11.4 kilometer-long Gudvangatunnelen in the mountainous western county of Sogn og Fjordane on Tuesday....
Weed burning sparked fire at Ringve Museum
Police and arson investigators believe that a fire that heavily damaged Norway's Ringve Museum in Trondheim was caused by weed-burning work carried out Monday morning, just...
Salvaging tones at a burned museum
Employees of the Ringve Museum were sifting through the rubble Tuesday morning of the historic building that's been Norway's premier showplace for centuries of art...
Music museum hit by ‘nightmare’ fire
UPDATED: Emergency crews scrambled to save priceless works of art and historic musical instruments from the Ringve Museum in Trondheim, when it was hit by fire...
Big Bergen fire ‘one of toughest’ ever
Firefighters finally gained control over another major fire to break out in the historic west coast city of Bergen during the night. It took...
Major fire in Tønsberg forced evacuations
A fire in a warehouse complex in Tønsberg continued to burn out of control Thursday evening, sending off huge volcano-like flumes of smoke and...
Bergen police launch hunt for church arsonist
Police in Bergen fear they may have another church arsonist on their hands, after someone tried to light a fire at a back entrance to...
Fire forced evacuations in Bodø
More than 200 people were evacuated after fire broke out in a shopping center in Bodø Wednesday evening, and neighbours remained under evacuation orders...
‘Extreme’ warmth set new records
Now it's official: Norway experienced it warmest weather for more than 100 years in 2014, and state meteorologists are calling the high temperatures that...
Police probe fatal fire
Norway's national police investigative unit Kripos has been called in to help probe a fire in a community-owned residential building at Solbergmoen in Nedre Eiker...
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