https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed UPDATED: Swedish islanders were left without working phone lines and electricity after Storm Alfrida battered Scandinavia, and on some islands it may three days before power is restored. https://www.thelocal.se/20190103/storm-alfrida-knocks-out-phone-network-including-emergency-number-on-gotland Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:47:21 +0100 storm-alfrida-knocks-out-phone-network-including-emergency-number-on-gotland Around one in three calls to Sweden’s 112 emergency number are unnecessary, with examples including people calling to request a ride from an ambulance, report petty theft, or asking to be forwarded to a different line. And after midnight on New Year the number gets particularly busy. https://www.thelocal.se/20171229/one-in-three-calls-to-swedens-emergency-number-are-unnecessary Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:15:32 +0100 one-in-three-calls-to-swedens-emergency-number-are-unnecessary An aircraft flying from Germany to Gothenburg was forced into an emergency landing Friday night after a crack appeared in the windshield of the cockpit. https://www.thelocal.se/20170513/sweden-bound-plane-forced-into-emergency-landing Sat, 13 May 2017 14:13:49 +0200 sweden-bound-plane-forced-into-emergency-landing A 30 metre long vessel was on fire in central Gothenburg on Monday, with 20 firefighters battling to put it out. https://www.thelocal.se/20170320/20-firefighters-battle-blaze-on-boat-in-gothenburg-harbour Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:43:10 +0100 20-firefighters-battle-blaze-on-boat-in-gothenburg-harbour A passenger plane had to make a controlled landing minutes after taking off from Gothenburg. https://www.thelocal.se/20161107/flight-declares-mid-air-emergency-minutes-after-leaving-gothenburg Mon, 07 Nov 2016 09:40:41 +0100 flight-declares-mid-air-emergency-minutes-after-leaving-gothenburg A hospital has been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) after it chose against sending an ambulance to a woman with breathing problems who died hours later from blood clotting to her lungs. https://www.thelocal.se/20130725/49250 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:47:00 +0200 49250 Swedish emergency service operator SOS Alarm should be replaced by a state authority, according to a new proposal presented to Sweden's Defence Minister Karin Enström on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20130429/47616 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:18:00 +0200 47616 Swedish authorities opened the lines to a new emergency telephone number on Monday, to be used specifically by residents looking for information about emergency situations. https://www.thelocal.se/20130312/46680 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:25:00 +0100 46680 It took ambulance staff nearly one hour to reach a man suffering from chest pains in southern Sweden because their maps were out of date. https://www.thelocal.se/20130112/45578 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:18:00 +0100 45578 A Gothenburg hospital has been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) after a seriously ill patient was forced to wait eight hours in the emergency ward, only to then suffer a stroke and die. https://www.thelocal.se/20120926/43454 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:54:00 +0200 43454 A doctor who told the wife of an 87-year-old man who had no pulse to "go home and call emergency services" has no explanation for why he refused to help, despite his clinic being a mere 50 metres from the home of the man, who subsequently died. https://www.thelocal.se/20120607/41286 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:24:00 +0200 41286 A woman in Hässelby in western Stockholm was dragged for nearly 10 metres under her own car after she managed run herself over on Friday morning in what police believe was a failed attempt to deal with some apparent engine trouble. https://www.thelocal.se/20120127/38766 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:31:00 +0100 38766 A 60-year-old woman from southern Stockholm is suspected of having made between 1,500 and 2,000 calls to emergency services since the beginning of the year, according to a report in Swedish newspaper Metro. https://www.thelocal.se/20110812/35498 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:32:00 +0200 35498 SOS Alarm owners push the company to reach higher profits despite several counties having cancelled contracts with the emergency response outfit while others express serious dissatisfaction. https://www.thelocal.se/20110522/33914 Sun, 22 May 2011 13:38:00 +0200 33914 Forest fires raging north of Gothenburg in western Sweden remain out of control on Sunday morning. https://www.thelocal.se/20090426/19082 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:57:00 +0200 19082 103-old Ulla Lunbäck is being honoured by emergency workers for having extinguished a fire in the southern Swedish town of Västervik. https://www.thelocal.se/20080514/11752 Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:00 +0200 11752 A civilian working as an emergency operator at the police’s central communication center for Stockholm county (LKC) chose not to send out a police patrol immediately after a woman called in to say three shots had been fired in her neighbour’s yard. https://www.thelocal.se/20080421/11238 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:19:00 +0200 11238 A man and a woman died in an apartment fire in the Södra Ryd area of Skövde in central Sweden on Tuesday morning. https://www.thelocal.se/20080415/11112 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:54:00 +0200 11112 Despite a woman’s repeated calls to Sweden’s emergency number, SOS Alarm, it took two hours before an ambulance arrived to care for son. https://www.thelocal.se/20080227/10126 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:47:00 +0100 10126 Fire and emergency crews helped evacuate the Pub department store in central Stockholm on Sunday afternoon because of a suspected gas leak. https://www.thelocal.se/20080127/9788 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:31:00 +0100 9788