Fires | Posti’s distribution point is back in Orivede: Residents are advised to stay inside

Postal the distribution point is back in Orivede. The Pirkanmaa rescue service received information about a large building fire on Teollisuustie on Tuesday evening at 8:18 p.m.

Posti’s director of communications Jenni Mattsson confirms that there is a Posti distribution office at the address.

“The authorities will start investigating the cause of the fire tomorrow,” Mattsson replies via text message.

Mattsson does not comment in more detail on what kind of mail was possibly stored in the building or whether letters or packages were destroyed in the fire.

Rescue service the burning building is an 800-square-meter hall.

The fire stations inside the building have been extinguished, but the fire is still spreading in the roof structures, the rescue service informs at 21:50. Extinguishing works are underway. There are 19 units and management units.

A large number of emergency vehicles move in the area. The fire department says that the fire is causing a lot of smoke in the surrounding area, and urges people in the surrounding area to stay indoors and close the ventilation.

At the venue an eyewitness who was there says that there was a strong wind in the area, which he believes explains why the smoke rising from the building was not immediately noticed. He did not notice any personal injuries.

“I was going to the local K-market. I began to wonder when so many people flocked to it. There were a lot of fire department units there,” he says by phone.

Fintraffic traffic operator Ilmari Laine driving in the area has not been specifically advised to avoid. Tie 58, where Teollisuustie branches off, is a central thoroughfare in Orivedi and carries a relatively large amount of traffic.

“Disadvantages in traffic are due to the fact that there are a lot of emergency vehicles in the area,” says Laine.

The reader’s photo shows a lot of smoke. Picture: Reader’s photo