It was early in the morning a year ago that Maria Thunberg was reached by phone call. A neighbor called and said it was burning in the woods behind her yard and that it was best that she hurried home.

- I immediately felt a lump in my stomach. This will not go well. Then I took the car and pulled the iron from Hässleholm at the same time as I called and asked my mother to show up at the farm, says Maria Thunberg.

The horses were gone in the fire smoke

The fire in Åbuamosse, located between Hästveda and Osby, was one of the bigger ones in Skåne in recent years. When a strong wind blew, the fire progressed rapidly. Maria Thunberg's farm was just in the wind direction from the overgrown moss.

- When I first came to the farm there was a thick fire smoke over the area, but no immediate fire. A bunch of neighbors were just about to extinguish the manure stack that had taken fire. My first thought was to get hold of my horses that were out in a pasture, she says.

In the clip, Maria Thunberg talks about the dramatic hours that changed her life and that she now decided to rebuild the horse farm.

The violent fire jumped over the green field and lit the yard 130 meters away. Photo: Johan Dernelius