{"id":67175,"date":"2023-11-23T23:03:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T23:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/man-in-his-60s-injured-after-explosive-fire-in-asker-news-oslo-and-viken-local-news-tv-and-radio\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T23:03:52","slug":"man-in-his-60s-injured-after-explosive-fire-in-asker-news-oslo-and-viken-local-news-tv-and-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/man-in-his-60s-injured-after-explosive-fire-in-asker-news-oslo-and-viken-local-news-tv-and-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in his 60s injured after explosive fire in Asker &#8211; news Oslo and Viken &#8211; Local news, TV and radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shortly after 5 p.m., the police reported that the fire had been extinguished.  The garage building is completely damaged.  One person is injured The man in his 60s who lives on the farm was slightly injured as a result of the fire.  He was inside the garage when it slammed, and got out on his own.  &#8211; As of now, he is not seriously injured, says section leader in Oslo police district Monica Svenningsen.  Monica Svenningsen in the Oslo police district.  Photo: Rolf Petter Olaisen \/ news The man was picked up by air ambulance and has now arrived in hospital.  The police received a report about the explosive fire at 3.40pm on Thursday afternoon.  &#8211; Work has been carried out at the site which may have triggered the fire, they stated.  An investigation is now underway at the scene.  Remedial work is now underway, and the neighbors have returned home after the evacuation.  Photo: Rolf Petter Olaisen \/ news Neighbors were evacuated The police began to evacuate residents in the immediate area, due to gas cylinders on the farm.  They have not yet concluded that the explosion is caused by the bottles.  &#8211; But we are talking about propane bottles, says Svenningsen.  Remains of a gas bottle that was in the garage.  Photo: Ellinor Hopen \/ news &#8211; We are in the process of notifying and evacuating residents who live within this area, said operations manager Bj\u00f8rn Gunnar Nys\u00e6ter earlier on Thursday.  A safety zone of 300 meters was established.  Around 16:30 the security zone was lifted.  The neighbors have been allowed to return to their homes.  A garage building was fully engulfed in flames on Thursday.  Photo: Edgar Dehli<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/osloogviken\/mann-i-60-arene-skadet-etter-eksplosjonsartet-brann-i-asker-1.16650259\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ttn-69 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after 5 p.m., the police reported that the fire had been extinguished. The garage building is completely damaged. One person is injured The man in his 60s who lives on the farm was slightly injured as a result of the fire. He was inside the garage when it slammed, and got out on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[469,5665,6488,331,877,151,130,16,11,152,150],"class_list":["post-67175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-60s","tag-asker","tag-explosive","tag-fire","tag-injured","tag-local","tag-man","tag-news","tag-oslo","tag-radio","tag-viken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}