The emergency services were notified of the fire on Strandpromenaden in Kristiansand at 00:20. Just before 1 o’clock the building was engulfed in flames, but there was never any danger of it spreading to nearby buildings. About an hour later, the police confirmed that the building had been burnt down. The cause of the fire has not been clarified. The house, an old boathouse, is used by the Church’s Bymission, which runs a rehabilitation service for people with substance abuse problems on site. The house contains, among other things, a cafe and a workshop. The police have confirmed that there were no people in the house at this time of day. – It is a violent fire and full ignition, said operations manager Tom Einar Gausdal in the Agder police district to NTB. The fire brigade on their way in to secure Christiansholm fortress on the night of Wednesday Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder / NTB Båthus from 1892 Incident leader Vigleik Fidje in the police says that the house was already on fire when the emergency services arrived at 00.30. – We are working to extinguish it, while the building is probably lost. It is a controlled burn we are talking about here, he told Avisen Kristiansand. The building is known as the “General’s boat house” and was erected after the town fire in Kristiansand in 1892, according to an article in Fædrelandsvennen in 2015.
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