The alarm came in at 6.30 pm on Tuesday evening.

- We got there and saw flames coming out of the window. It is a fully-fledged apartment fire, said Joakim Tapper, commanding officer of the Greater Stockholm Fire Defense Association, just before 7 pm.

Do you evacuate housing in the house?

- Right now we ask people to stay in their apartments, we do not remove people in the stairwell.

By a quarter past seven, the fire was under control and the emergency services were working to extinguish the fire.

traffic Barriers

During the evening, the police were also on hand to help with the fences.

- We block off the streets closest to the property so that the rescue services can work undisturbed, says Ola Österling at the police's command center.