SEE: Motorway E6 at Kålleredsmotet closed after large industrial area fire in Kållered, Sweden
SEE: The E6 motorway at Kålleredsmotet was closed after a large industrial area fire in Kållered, Sweden. Image: Mihail Condrea/Facebook
The E6 motorway at Kålleredsmotet has been forced to close on Monday 8 August after a huge fire broke out in an industrial area in Kållered, Sweden.
Video clips shared on social media on Monday, August 8 show the extent of a fire that broke out in an industrial area in Kållered, located in Mölndal municipality, Västra Götaland county. The fire forced the closure of both E6 and Gamla riksvägen.
Rescue manager Christer Dyrfel says: – We have smoke from the entire building and flames are coming out of the premises, says Christer Dyrfelt at the rescue service.
The fire broke out in the facility at 6 a.m., according to Dyrfelt. “[The fire] has a fully developed one in the large industrial premises and we work on site, he says.
Eighteen firefighting personnel are currently on site.
Early information indicates that the fire started in a caravan showroom.
Rikard Peterson, co-owner of Husvagnshuset, told SVT: “Our father started selling caravans in 1968. So it is what we know and our life’s work that we have taken over. So it feels very heavy.”
He added: “There’s nothing left at all. It’s just ashes.”
His brother Robert Peterson, also a co-owner of Husvagnshuset, told the news agency: “I received a call at six o’clock from a passer-by on the E6 who told me that there was a fire in the premises. Thankfully, no one was hurt.”
“All our caravans inside the premises are destroyed. There are 10–15 of them. The carts on the outside look good,” he said.
According to the Swedish Transport Administration, the E6 at Kålleredsmotet will likely be closed in both directions until around 3pm due to the extensive fire.
A video on Facebook showed the devastating fire.
FB user Mihail Condrea shared several videos.
Rikard Peterson wrote on Twitter: “The motorway at Kållered is said to be closed for a long time today. Take another path.”
Inside info if you say so. The motorway at Kållered is said to be closed for a long time today. Take a different route.
I have some other things to fix today. pic.twitter.com/VU1XuG4SVz
— Rikard Peterson (@RikardPeterson) August 8, 2022
Another video from Mihail Condrea showed the fire from a different angle.
Police spokesperson Fredrik Svedemyr says: “We are there assisting the emergency services at the moment, including the traffic on the E6.”