Norwegian and international media report that a fire in the car park at Sola airport in Stavanger on 7 January caused the airport to close. The fire was reported at about 15:00 and all flights were cancelled until mid-morning the next day. Nearby buildings including a Scandic Hotel were evacuated. Fire Chief Runar Heggen said that by 18:00 on 7 January part of the car park had collapsed and at least 300 of the estimated 1,000 cars in the five-storey car park were destroyed. The fire was too dangerous for firefighters to enter the building, with exploding fuel tanks and huge quantities of smoke, toxic gases and heat. A strong wind helped to spread the fire within the car park. 70 firefighters attacked the fire from outside, aided by the wind to get water and foam inside the building.<\/p>\n
The fire even delayed Norway’s Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, who had been in Stavanger for the ceremonial opening of a new oil field and had to return to Oslo by car – a seven hour journey.<\/p>\n
The EFSN’s Norwegian members have confirmed that Norway does not require sprinklers in open-sided car parks and that this car park was therefore not protected. The next day it was confirmed that the fire started in an elderly diesel-powered car (an Opel Safira). It will take some time before it anyone enters the building since there are fears of further collapse. The Scandic Hotel was severely smoke-damaged and will need renovation. This video clip<\/a> from the Stavanger Aftenblad shows the extent of the damage and that even an airport crash tender was unable to control the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Norwegian and international media report that a fire in the car park at Sola airport in Stavanger on 7 January caused the airport to close. The fire was reported at about 15:00 and all flights were cancelled until mid-morning the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}