Fire in Spitsbergen mine
Emergency personnel are presenly fighting to extinguish a fire at the Svea mine at the Spitsbergen island. About one kilometer of the mine is on fire and the fire fighters now try to put out the flames by flooding the pit. The fire started on Saturday evening durign a welding operation of pipes.
Special equipment, which is to help extinguish the fire, was yesterday night flown in from Germany.










