On Thursday afternoon, emergency services rushed to the oil refinery of Equinor at Mongstad in Alver, following a report of smoke. The facility has been shut down, and employees have been evacuated, according to the police. Critical personnel and emergency services are on site. – The fire service reports that there is a fire in a so-called electrical cabinet, says operations manager in the police, Steinar Hausvik. Smoke divers were deployed, but at 4.19 pm the police report that the fire has been extinguished. Has shut down production Equinor received a report of smoke development at 13.00. They set up an emergency organization and notified the relevant authorities. – We have routinely evacuated the facility for non-operationally critical personnel. As a preventive measure, we have shut down production. We are working to get an overview of the situation, said Ellen Maria Skjelsbæk in Equinor. There must have been a lot of smoke at the scene, according to the police. There has not yet been a need to evacuate surrounding residential areas, but the police are assessing this on an ongoing basis. It was the newspaper Nordhordland that reported on the smoke development first. Mongstad is an hour and a half north of Bergen.
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Ten people to the emergency room after a fire at Mongstad – news Vestland
