- You are powerful and act and evacuate directly from the balconies, search apartments, go on fire - that is what rescue service personnel are trained in, that life goes first.
It could have been much worse, more lives could have been wasted, says Ulf Bergholm, accident investigator at MSB.
It was early in the morning on September 28 that the alarm came about an explosion and a fire in an apartment building on Övre Husargatan in Gothenburg.
One store and several apartments were destroyed, 140 apartments were evacuated, one person died and several were taken to hospital.
The incident is considered to be unusually extensive and MSB has now investigated the Greater Gothenburg Rescue Service's efforts to draw lessons for the future.
"Effective life-saving efforts"
The investigation describes the operation as an "effective life-saving operation despite the complicated starting point" and it also describes how in a short time "many life-saving measures were implemented that prevented the incident from having even worse consequences than it had".
The investigators see some minor shortcomings, among other things regarding the management work and that it took some time before measures were put in place against the actual problem - the fire in the basement.
But the assessment is that the Rescue Service has acted correctly in focusing on lifesaving.
In the clip above, you can see the rescue service's pictures from inside the house and the investigator also tells why the rescue service's effort was successful.