– It is dry and little rain is expected in the coming week, reports the Meteorological Institute. They have sent out a warning for forest fires for Telemark and eastern parts of Agder. – Vegetation can easily ignite and large areas can be affected. YELLOW: The danger warning applies to parts of southern Norway. Photo: Meteorological Institute Here you can follow the forest fire forecast. Major fire in Telemark On Saturday, 3,000 targets were burned in a forest fire in Nissedal. Dozens of firefighters and three forest fire helicopters fought the flames. Three firefighters were retrieved from the forest by helicopter. They had inhaled smoke and were admitted to the hospital for observation. The fire also threatened a power plant. Called 110 Jarl-Tommy Merkesdal-Olsen was on a day trip to the cauldrons when he smelled smoke. – When my wife saw smoke as well, I went to check what was burning, he says. He reacted to the fact that the smoke was bluish, and says it is a typical sign of heather fire. BLACK: The forest in Nissedal is characterized by ash and dead vegetation. Photo: Ole Oskar Eriksen / news From a hill he could see the flames. He thinks it burned in an area of 200 square meters. – I was 25 meters from the flames and saw that the pine trees caught fire. I thought it was going to go fast with that wind, he says. Merkesdal-Olsen has a background from the Civil Defense and has been involved in extinguishing forest fires before. – When the fire brigade arrived, I helped evacuate tent tourists at the potholes, he says. CALLED 110: Jarl-Tommy Merkesdal-Olsen called the fire brigade when it started to burn in Nissedal. Photo: Private Fire on the mountainside Monday morning there were no visible flames to be seen, but throughout the morning the fire broke out in a steep mountainside by Furunusteren. A forest fire helicopter is trying to put out the fire. 30 people also work on the ground extinguishing embers. The fire service has control of the site, and there is no danger of the fire spreading to buildings. Wind can cause trouble – There are quite a lot of visible flames on a steep mountainside on Furunusteren, says duty officer Martin Haugen at Sør-Øst 110. Haugen says the fire brigade hopes to put out as much as possible before Wednesday. Then more wind is reported. FIRE: Smoke overturned over the terrain in Nissedal on Saturday. Three helicopters on standby Section chief Ann Christin Olsen-Haines in DSB says that from Tuesday there will be three forest fire helicopters on standby. In 2018, 2095 forest fires were registered. About twice as many as usual. – We are still at fewer incidents this year than at the same time in 2018. Warmer and drier weather has been forecast for the future, so we are following the situation closely, says Olsen-Haines. She says fires in nature are most often started by careless people or lightning strikes. Number of fires in infield and outfield: 2022: (up to and including 11 July): 1,015 2021: 1,180 2020: 991 2019: 822 2018: 2,095 2017: 1,074 2016: 1,167 Source: DSB
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Warnings of yellow forest fire danger in parts of southern Norway – news Vestfold and Telemark – Local news, TV and radio
