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 The fire in a paper recycling facility in Uppsala is still ongoing, producing large amounts of smoke. According to fire services, it could burn for days. https://www.thelocal.se/20220509/serious-fire-in-paper-recycling-centre-near-uppsala Mon, 09 May 2022 17:35:33 +0200 serious-fire-in-paper-recycling-centre-near-uppsala Sweden’s SOS Alarm emergency control centre is to introduce SMS warnings to people in areas that it considers to be in danger. https://www.thelocal.se/20170618/sweden-to-send-sms-warnings-to-all-citizens-after-dangerous-incidents Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:57:18 +0200 sweden-to-send-sms-warnings-to-all-citizens-after-dangerous-incidents Two Swedish paramedics failed to spot a bleeding ulcer and instead left the patient to bleed to death as he made his own way to hospital. https://www.thelocal.se/20131107/ambulance-left-man-to-die-at-home Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:33:00 +0100 ambulance-left-man-to-die-at-home Police have detained four people in connection with a fire that killed 70 cows in the barn of an agricultural high school about 50 kilometres south of Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20130417/47390 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:05:00 +0200 47390 Seventy cows died in the early hours of Friday after a barn at an agricultural high school about 50 kilometres south of Stockholm caught fire. https://www.thelocal.se/20130322/46868 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:41:00 +0100 46868 One person has diead, at least two are seriously injured and as many as eight received lesser injuries when a car and a double-decker bus collided, with the bus pinning the car down as they both skidded off the road. https://www.thelocal.se/20121211/45000 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:13:00 +0100 45000 On Saturday, two fire trucks, two police cars and an emergency gas leak team all rushed towards the Stockholm neighbourhood Södermalm, having been alerted by concerned neighbours who smelled gas in the stairwell, but the unpleasant smell turned out to come from something less dangerous. https://www.thelocal.se/20120909/43110 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:40:00 +0200 43110 Violent rains flooded Gothenburg on Saturday afternoon, leaving trams at a standstill and forcing shopping centre Nordstan to be evacuated. https://www.thelocal.se/20120729/42294 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:04:00 +0200 42294 Three fire engines trying to get to a fire in central Gothenburg on Wednesday were delayed after large flower pots placed in the street proved to be immovable. https://www.thelocal.se/20120525/41034 Fri, 25 May 2012 10:23:00 +0200 41034 The emergency services in Ed in western Sweden received a somewhat unusual call on Saturday, after two teenager girls asked for help in freeing themselves from a shopping cart in which they found themselves stuck. https://www.thelocal.se/20111031/37064 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:12:00 +0100 37064 From 2013, Swedish police recruits will receive more extensive training in driving emergency vehicles in an attempt to reduce the number of officers injured in road accidents. https://www.thelocal.se/20110916/36172 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:47:00 +0200 36172 Children playing at the Busfabriken indoor playground in Norrköping in eastern Sweden on Friday afternoon were left shocked after they found a severed finger. https://www.thelocal.se/20101122/30354 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:33:00 +0100 30354 A house in Hällefors in eastern Sweden burned to the ground on Sunday after fire fighters, satisfied that they had successfully extinguished a fire, left the still intact building. https://www.thelocal.se/20100310/25448 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:29:00 +0100 25448