It was at twelve o'clock on Thursday evening that the rescue service was alerted to Rydöbruk in Hylte municipality. When they arrived it was a fully developed fire and they decided that the house would burn down to the ground. The emergency services instead focused on preventing the fire from spreading to the house which was three meters away.

According to the police, it was a deserted house and the incident is classified as a fire by the police. There is no suspect yet.