A person was arrested at midnight on suspicion of arson after a mattress caught fire in an apartment in Kirseberg, Malmö. The alarm came at 23:50 on Friday, and emergency services extinguished the fire without it spreading further. Another resident was checked by ambulance due to smoke.
On Friday evening, just before midnight, emergency services were alerted to an apartment in Kirseberg, Malmö, following a fire in a bed. Upon arrival, no one was left in the apartment, and the fire had already burned out the bed. The blaze was quickly extinguished and did not spread to other parts of the building.
Mattias Sköld, duty officer at the rescue service, described the situation: “We are ventilating out smoke; possibly some has entered another apartment. Another resident is being checked by ambulance. The fire is extinguished, and the bed that burned is burned out.” According to reports from the scene, a person was arrested at midnight, suspected of arson. Police are investigating the case, but no further details about the arrest have been released.
The incident occurred in a residential area in eastern Malmö, and emergency services confirmed no major damage to the property occurred beyond the burned-out bed. It is unclear if anyone was in the apartment when the fire started.
