In Uppsala, an alarm was raised just before 8 PM at a public premises on Kungsgatan, prompting emergency services to the scene. Emergency services are investigating but have not found anything yet. In Bergen, police and other emergency services were dispatched to the area around Den Nationale Scene in the city center after a hotel reported a gas smell from a room.
Police are on site together with other emergency services after a report of a gas smell from a hotel room. Police have control of the site, and one person is being cared for by health personnel. Bergens Tidende reported earlier that police had equipped themselves with shields during the response.
In Trondheim, the fire department was dispatched on Wednesday afternoon to investigate a suspicious smell in a building on the east side of the city. Circumstances in the building make it difficult to say what is happening yet. Operations leader Martin Eriksen Skjerve in Trøndelag police district states that they are also sending a patrol to the site.
On Charlottenlund, the 110 center received a report at 09:37 of smoke development from an apartment complex, with the alert coming after someone observed smoke from a basement. According to Norvik, they smell an odor but there is little smoke, and they are trying to find the source. Norvik assessed the situation as undramatic.
Other incidents in Sweden included a smoke smell report in an apartment building in Nyfors on Easter Saturday evening, which turned out to be a case of something burning dry. Police noted that several people have inhaled smoke in that incident. In Oslo, emergency services were dispatched after reports of smoke development in Smalgangen on Grønland, with police working to get an overview of the situation.
It is not clear if there has been a fire, but initial reports indicate that smoke came from an electrical panel. Additional alerts involved emergency services being called to Mälarsjukhuset in Eskilstuna on Saturday at 19:22 concerning a smell of smoke, which turned out to be a leak. On Saturday afternoon, emergency services were also dispatched to an address in Skönsberg, and SOS received calls about a smell of smoke in a villa north of Arkelstorp, with responders en route to both locations.
The exact causes of the smoke or gas smells in Uppsala, Bergen, Trondheim, Oslo, and other sites remain under investigation, and it is unknown whether these multiple incidents across Sweden and Norway are connected or coincidental. Authorities have not disclosed specific health impacts for the person being cared for in Bergen or the full extent of property damage at each site, with ongoing investigations determining follow-up actions.