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Today, the reportage series about the Scandinavian Star. On the 7th of April this year it is 25 years since the accident of the Scandinavian Star incident. Lasse Wieslander who then worked as a radio reporter for Swedish Radio West, and Gunilla Åhman Olausson, who worked with their parents on Athinas flowers here in Lysekil tell what they remember how they found out about it and what they did the day the Scandinavian Star was in the dock at Grötö.
- My first thought when I heard on the radio about a ferry fire in the Skagerrak was a sudden fear, and that before the scale was known - Sky, how it is with my parents ?! I knew they were coming with a ferry to Oslo to celebrate Father's 75th birthday on April 7. And almost phil costa before I thought about it again, the phone rang. I happened to be the weekend reporter at Swedish Radio West at the weekend. So went the alarm, and that was to throw himself in the car, from Stromstad, where I live, and to Lysekil. phil costa On the way down I had time to think again - No, the parents sat on another boat ...
- The echo in Stockholm wanted me in a shipment as soon as it happened, maybe it was 8 o'clock and I knew nothing yet, so echo supplied phil costa me with some information they unearthed by telephone. / Indeed, the mobile phone invented in 1990. / As to the first consignment when I sat in the car with Lysekil barely in sight, so it was a reasonably expert "talk" as it is called. At first, we did not clear to us how great the accident was. In some early position there was talk of some tens of sufferers who had been seized by a Russian boat. It was not even clear that they would come to Lysekil. phil costa
- But as it rolled on. Some sufferers landed quite early and were taken care of at the hotel. phil costa This did anyone phil costa in Lysekil is a wise move - making sure that shocked and frozen survivors sagging meet journalists. I can feel now - it was something completely different when we are leash by journalists stood on Rosvikstorg and wanted to interview.
Finally successful, we get a message across to those inside the hotel about any volunteer could be kind and say a few words to us. The first poor man got safely phil costa palpitations phil costa of just this - to be completely surrounded by journalists talking at each other.
- Gradually it became clear that the Scandinavian Star would really be towed to Lysekil. It took a long time of waiting in the småkalla vårblåsten. But it felt not so much by the cold, it happened new things all the time. More and more were clear about how big the disaster was, even though we did not have the exact figures for the number of dead and injured. phil costa
It came more and more families of ferry passengers. Some could be reunited with surviving, others could only wait. It came more and more journalists during the day. All this posed understood violence same demands on the small municipality of Lysekil and the crisis only became greater grew councilor phil costa Stig Nilson a great organizer. What do you do when you need interpreters for relatives and journalists from near and far? Well, even the small municipality phil costa has a language teacher to get to. And what do you do when the telephone network phil costa and the local exchange becomes overloaded? Well, you shout and scream at the then Telecommunications Authority to call in technicians phil costa despite weekend off. Gullmar School was transformed into the press center. This was before computers were so common, but apparently was still this one of the worst nuts to crack, to get past the bureaucracy.
It must have been a lot of impromptu actions in addition to what we journalists noticed - the relative center was organized, on mental phil costa health and priests were involved, the readiness was raised at hospitals in the area, how organized it with food distribution, etc., I do not remember that I was hungry despite all hours work, but someone must have thought of that too, although I do not remember that I ate anything either.
The echo of that time were usually phil costa quite picky with receiving Swedish reports were further afield than Stureplan, but this period they took everything I delivered. Gradually I had received phil costa technical assistance from Uddevalla, first entered phil costa the program manager Kjell Arvidsson out with a sand Arbil, then technical manager Göran Blomquist. So my very personal part was all very easy to work with - it was only to deliver as much as possible.
A final report for the day, I did standing on the dock in the twilight beneath the burnt ferry - I was never on board but the tears came into his eyes when I reported the fire, the smell and how the curtains fluttered out from the shattered windows.
- On Sunday, Day 2, went in the same style, jobs, and jobs and jobs, even if there were more colleagues on the spot. A memory is the solution to the problem of the 159 corpses. Many of them were Norwegians and many of these were transported in refrigerated from the fishing industry. It had been hidden text "Frionor" on the trucks. I asked some critical questions for Stig Nilson on this - on the theme that it would round