The rescue center in Eskilstuna can be closed down: "Unhappy"

The rescue service Mälardalen and Räddsam Mälardalen have had a collaboration since 2016 on the rescue center in Eskilstuna.

But it can be just a memory.

The rescue service in Västerås wants to be controlled from Stockholm. 

- We get a cheaper solution, a more efficient management and we will work in a rescue region with a lot of resources, says Christer Ängehov, rescue manager at the Mälardalen Rescue Service.

Local knowledge

According to the rescue chief Camilla Dahlén, the advantage of having a rescue center under her own auspices has mainly been the local knowledge available to the staff.

You can lose it when, for example, you have a rescue center in the big city, she says.

- It is impossible for those in Stockholm to keep track of the local conditions in, for example, Surahammar, she says.

- It is not good, but we believe that it can be compensated partly with technical solutions but also with the staff who will work with us to have a certain competence what it looks like with us in terms of risk objects and how our structure looks completely simple, so that knowledge must be in the management center, says Christer Ängehov.