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The following articles have been tagged with "Firefighters":

Stockholm train in violent crash with truck

National: 9 Feb 12
Several passengers on a commuter train were taken to hospital and the train driver had to be cut loose by emergency services after a train and a truck collided in Stockholm on Thursday morning. READ »

Home fires increase during Swedish winter

National: 11 Dec 11
With advent, Lucia and Christmas, Swedish firefighters are kept busy during the month of December, with 12 percent of all recorded fires caused by candles left unattended. READ »

Kalmar mall gutted in suspected arson case

National: 13 Oct 11
A major shopping centre in Kalmar in southern Sweden was ravaged by fire on Wednesday night in a blaze police believe was intentionally set. READ »

Firefighters fear female 'threat': study

Society: 21 Jul 11
Many Swedish firefighters fear that letting women into the profession will undermine the camaraderie necessary to do a god job in a work environment full of risk, a new study from the University of Gothenburg shows. READ »

Massive fire leaves KTH student body reeling

Education: 5 May 11
The fire that raged though the School of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Wednesday have left the student body in the lurch with the loss of vital workshops. READ »

Fire destroys buildings at Stockholm's KTH

National: 4 May 11
A fire broke out in the auditorium of the School of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Wednesday, destroying a number of buildings. READ »

House fire kills boy,9, and his grandparents

National: 14 Jan 11
An elderly couple and their 9-year-old grandson were killed in a house fire in the Stockholm suburb of Täby on Thursday evening. Officials believe a television caused the blaze READ »

Swedish coastguard aids blazing ferry

National: 17 Nov 10
The Swedish coastguard on Wednesday came to the aid of a Danish ferry travelling from Oslo to Copenhagen after a fire broke out onboard. READ »

Heathrow fire has 'no effect' on Sweden flights

National: 9 Jul 10
A fire at London Heathrow Airport is not expected to have any effect on flights from Stockholm Arlanda Airport, a spokesperson for the airport has confirmed. READ »

One dead in bus crash

National: 19 May 10
One person has died and 14 others were injured in a bus accident on Färingsö west of Stockholm. READ »

Fire causes woman to leap from fourth floor

National: 7 Dec 09
A woman jumped from her fourth floor apartment to escape a fire at an assisted living facility in northwest Stockholm early on Monday morning. READ »

Gothenburg school destroyed in arson attack

National: 14 Nov 09
Fire-fighters were called out in the early hours of Saturday morning to Torslanda school in Gothenburg. The building has been completely destroyed in what police believe to be an arson attack. READ »

School torched following Swedish teens' failed hand gel tests

National: 30 Sep 09
Two teens playing with alcohol-based hand sanitizer inadvertently burned down a school in Södertälje, south of Stockholm. READ »

Arson suspected in Södertälje blaze

National: 28 Sep 09
Arson is suspected in a powerful fire which ravaged the offices of the Assyrian cultural and athletic association in Södertälje early Monday morning. READ »

Fire near Stockholm leaves one dead

National: 23 Aug 09
One person died in an apartment fire on Klippgatan in Solna, just north of Stockholm, early Sunday morning. READ »

Two injured in Stockholm ferry fire

National: 18 Aug 09
Two people are being treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke on Tuesday afternoon on a ferry docked in Stockholm and carrying 2,300 passengers. READ »

Arson suspected in huge Gothenburg blaze

National: 11 Jun 09
A powerful fire tore through a warehouse near Gothenburg early Thursday morning, destroying millions of kronor worth of boats. Police suspect the fire was deliberately set. READ »

'Curfews and police' can curb Rosengård fires

National: 7 May 09
A prominent Liberal Party Riksdag member on Wednesday called for targeted curfews and more police in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood just hours before a communal refuse facility in the area burned to the ground. READ »

Rosengård firefighters call it quits

National: 28 Apr 09
Months of facing thrown rocks and threats during calls to the Rosengård neighbourhood in Malmö have caused local fire chief Henrik Persson and others to step down. READ »

New Rosengård fires 'revenge': police

National: 20 Mar 09
Police in Malmö claim a recent wave of deliberately set fires in the city’s heavily-immigrant Rosengård neighbourhood constitutes an act of retaliation for recent arrests. READ »

Fire ravages Mölndal apartment building

National: 2 Mar 09
One person has been taken to hospital and an entire block evacuated in the wake of a devastating fire in Mölndal in western Sweden. READ »

Arson suspected in hotel inferno

National: 25 Feb 09
Police suspect that a fire which raged through a hotel in Eskilstuna in central Sweden early Wednesday morning was deliberately set. READ »

Violent fire destroys Umeå student housing

National: 25 Dec 08
A violent fire destroyed student housing in Umeå in northern Sweden on Christmas Eve. Fire services had a busy night as a wave of arson attacks were reported across the country. READ »

Man dies in Gothenburg apartment fire

National: 11 Nov 08
A fire in the Lundby district of Gothenburg claimed the life of a man early Tuesday morning. READ »

Fresh set of fires plagues Ystad

National: 10 Nov 08
After a month of relative calm, the town of Ystad in southern Sweden was hit by another series of fires early Monday morning believed to be purposefully set. READ »

Dozens of livestock perish in barn fire

National: 21 Oct 08
A fire which broke out on Monday night in a barn on a farm in Skärstad in central Sweden has claimed the lives of 46 animals. READ »

Forest fire caused by spurned teen's anguish

National: 6 Oct 08
A Swedish teenager has been charged for starting a fire after dropping a burning letter of unrequited love near a wooded area in Gothenburg. READ »

Court finds apartment fire caused by man's dog

Society: 11 Sep 08
A 30-year-old man from Helsingborg in western Sweden has avoided conviction on arson charges after the court ruled that his cookie-loving dog was likely responsible for setting the fire that destroyed his apartment. READ »

Carpenter's savings spared from massive blaze

National: 4 Sep 08
A Polish carpenter who lives in western Sweden received some good news after a fire destroyed his home. READ »

Arson suspected in major industrial fire

National: 18 Aug 08
A blazer aging in an industrial building in Borås in western Sweden is thought to have been caused by an arson attack. READ »

Massive blaze consumes top floors of Gothenburg building

National: 4 Aug 08
A violent fire raged through the night into Monday morning in central Gothenburg. READ »

Bomb scare at Arlanda airport

National: 2 Jul 08
Large sections of Stockholm’s Arlanda airport were blocked off on Wednesday as technicians worked to remove a suspected bomb. READ »

Malmö firefighters demand police escorts

Society: 16 Jun 08
Firefighters in Malmö in southern Sweden are demanding police escorts on calls. READ »

One death in row house blaze

National: 6 Jun 08
A person has died in a violent fire that broke out in a row of houses in Borlänge, central Sweden, early on Friday morning. READ »

Violent fire damages Stockholm Courthouse

National: 5 Jun 08
A fire erupted overnight at the Stockholm Courthouse (Rådhuset), although firefighters had managed to bring the blaze under control by early Thursday morning. READ »

Forest fires under control: firefighters

National: 4 Jun 08
Fierce forest fires which have raged in northern Sweden for nearly a week should soon be extinguished, a local fire and rescue service official said on Wednesday. READ »

Apartment fire leaves two dead

National: 15 Apr 08
A man and a woman died in an apartment fire in the Södra Ryd area of Skövde in central Sweden on Tuesday morning. READ »

Accident forces closure of Öresund Bridge

National: 7 Nov 07
The Öresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden has been closed to traffic following an accident on Wednesday afternoon. READ »

Fire at popular restaurant 'was arson'

National: 5 Nov 07
A popular Stockholm bar and restaurant was completely gutted by fire on Sunday night. Police suspect the blaze at the Grill restaurant was started deliberately. READ »

Rosengård: hardship and hope

Lifestyle: 23 Aug 07
For many, the Rosengård area of Malmö has become a symbol of segregation, deprivation and unrest. Four months after disturbances there gained international attention, Genevieve Worrell finds real problems remain, but also a will to turn the situation around. READ »

Serious fire at Stockholm gym

National: 28 Jun 07
Six people have been injured in a serious fire at a gym in central Stockholm at lunchtime on Thursday. The fire at the Energiverket gym in the Hornstull area was said by witnesses to have started in a solarium. READ »

Bomb explodes at Gothenburg restaurant

National: 16 Jun 07
A bomb exploded at a pizzeria in Gothenburg on Friday night, in what police say was a deliberate attack. READ »

Explosion in Stockholm apartment

National: 6 Jan 07
A man has died after an explosion in an eleventh-floor apartment in central Stockholm. The explosion could have been caused by a faulty television. READ »

Stockholm school in flames

National: 2 Jan 07
Children at a nursery school in Stockholm were evacuated at lunchtime on Tuesday after a major fire broke out in the gym of a neighbouring school. READ »

Man dies in Dalarna apartment fire

National: 20 Dec 06
One man was killed and at least thirty people were evacuated after a major fire broke out in an apartment block in Mora, Dalarna, on Tuesday night. READ »

Historic building saved from fire

National: 12 Dec 06
Firefighters in Stockholm say they have saved one of Stockholm's oldest buildings after a serious blaze broke out on its upper floors. READ »

Fire in Stockholm's Gamla Stan

National: 12 Dec 06
A serious blaze has broken out in an apartment block in Stockholm's Old Town. The fire could spread to neighbouring buildings, including one lived in by Göran Persson, firefighters say. READ »

Fire breaks out at Stockholm mall

National: 20 Oct 06
A shopping mall in northern Stockholm was evacuated on Friday evening after thick, black smoke was seen coming from the roof. READ »

Robbers raid Gothenburg bank

National: 1 Sep 06
A bank in central Gothenburg was robbed on Friday morning. Police say that something was taken in the raid, but it is unclear what. READ »

Forest fire rages in Norrland

National: 14 Aug 06
Four villages in northern Sweden were evacuated on Sunday after a fire tore its way through 500 hectares of pine forest. READ »

Dry weather prompts nationwide fire warning

National: 20 Jul 06
The risk of forest and grass fires is higher than ever across Sweden. Weeks of sun mean prime fire conditions, where careless barbecues or a smouldering cigarette butt could start a blaze. READ »

Forest fire spreads to national park

National: 4 Jul 06
A forest fire set off on Monday by a spark from a rail track in Småland had by Tuesday morning spread to the Store Mosse national park. READ »

Major fire at Helsingborg dump

National: 24 Jun 06
Firefighters were fighting a large blaze at a garbage dump in Helsingborg on Saturday. The fire is burning in storage buildings containing gasoline and oil. READ »

Hot spell causes forest fires

National: 14 Jun 06
Forest fires have been burning in several parts of Sweden, caused largely by the recent hot, dry weather. READ »

Gas leak injures three in Stockholm

National: 19 Apr 06
A fire caused by a gas leak in central Stockholm injures three people and causes traffic chaos READ »

School in Stockholm burns

National: 17 Apr 06
A fire broke out at a school in a Stockholm suburb on Sunday night, taking hold in a teaching block. The cause of the blaze is unknown, fire officials say. READ »

Fire guts Gothenburg homeless boat

National: 13 Apr 06
A boat in Gothenburg used as a homeless shelter was still burning on Thursday morning more than twelve hours after catching fire. Police suspect the blaze was started deliberately. READ »

Hundreds evacuated as Tyresö fire rages

National: 26 Mar 06
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes overnight in Tyresö outside Stockholm after a massive blaze broke out on a nearby industrial estate. A high risk of explosion is obstructing the work of the fire service. READ »

Six hurt in restaurant fire

National: 20 May 05
A restaurant fire in Kristianstad has injured six people. The fire, which broke out early on Friday morning, has completely destroyed the restaurant. READ »

Arson suspected in Gävle hotel blaze

National: 17 May 05
A huge fire has broken out in a hotel in the central Swedish town of Gävle. Police say that arson is the most likely cause of the blaze. READ »

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