A man died after a house fire in Porsgrunn – news Vestfold and Telemark – Local news, TV and radio

There was no life to spare, the police say. Relatives have been notified of the death. It was a man in his 80s who died. – It has had a tragic outcome. A resident of the house has died, says incident leader Sondre Dahl in the police. Emergency services notified The police state that it was passers-by who notified the emergency services after seeing smoke and flames in a house. Dahl says that those who called the police got into the house. But they couldn’t do anything until the fire brigade arrived, because there was a lot of smoke. When the police arrived there was also smoke and flames at the scene. The man in the house was taken out. The fire brigade quickly got the fire under control. – Do you know anything about the cause of the fire? – We don’t do that. We are talking to the next of kin, those who reported the incident and are now investigating to find out why the fire started. The house is not said to have sustained major damage in the fire.



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