Forest fire
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A huge forest fire is raging in an area near Grimstad and Arendal these days. It has been going on for 4 days and only today the firemen hope to gain some control over it. According to Dagbladet.no it is the largest forest fire in Norway in modern times and it can even be seen from “space”.
Luckily no lives has been lost yet, but it’s still pretty scary. I am relatively safe about 40 km from the fire, but it’s still close nough to see the smoke and smell the burned wood. I woke up this morning to the sour smell of newly burned out wood. Yesterday around noon Arendal was completely covered in smoke and last night a cone of smoke was covering the sky above Grimstad. Aparently you could see the smoke as far south as Kristiansand. 10 000 acre has burned so far. That’s an area larger than downtown Oslo, and it will probably be more before they manage to stop the fire.
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