From New Year’s Eve, while Oslo Municipality was still sending off fireworks from the harbor pool outside City Hall. With the Harbor warehouse (th) and the tower of the fortress (behind). Friday night there will be very fireworks in the same style. Illustration photo: Berit Roald / NTB
There will be fireworks on a par with the New Year’s fireworks Oslo municipality used to send off, according to the fire service’s communications manager. – We wanted to notify this early so that people who need to physically be somewhere else have the opportunity to get something done about it, he says.
Just before 23.00 on Friday evening, a larger firework will be launched from the Oslo harbor basin.
The fireworks are believed to last for about six minutes, according to the 110 central.
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– This will be quite difficult, about the size of the New Year’s fireworks Oslo municipality used to send off in the past years, so there will be a lot of noise and reach a lot of people, says Sigurd Folgerø Dalen, head of communications at the Oslo Fire and Rescue Service, to VårtOslo .
In recent years, Oslo municipality has not set off public fireworks on New Year’s Eve.
Communications manager at the Oslo Fire and Rescue Service, Sigurd Folgerø Dalen. Photo: Oslo Fire and Rescue Service
Permission granted
– The fireworks are connected to a private event without us having any more insight into what the occasion is or who is behind it, says the communications manager.
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– The only people who have the opportunity to apply for a dispensation to carry out launches within ring 2 are pyrotechnic companies. As long as the required applications are submitted, the permit will be granted, he explains.
The fireworks are launched from a raft in the harbor basin and will be audible and visible to large parts of the city centre.
Many questions and inquiries
– We are used to getting a lot of questions after this. There will be a lot of noise. There will probably be quite a few inquiries after tonight’s fireworks as well, especially since this will be so difficult, says Folgerø Dalen.
– As you slam into the new year, I’m going to sit here and look a terrified little dog in the eyes
– We therefore wanted to notify this early, in order to reach as many people as possible with the message that this is happening, among other things so that people who need to physically be somewhere else while the fireworks are going on have the opportunity to get something done about it, he adds to.
#Oslo Tonight between 22.50 and 23.00 a large firework display will be set off in the Oslo harbor basin. The fireworks are expected to last for approx. 6 minutes.
— Oslo 110-sentral (@Oslo110sentral) March 1, 2024
Already in the middle of the day on Friday, the 110 central notified about the fireworks via its X account.
– Beyond that, it is the organizer’s responsibility to inform about what will happen, concludes the fire service’s communications manager.
Warning: – Can result in dramatic fires
Reports of banging to the police
While the fireworks were going on, the police could quite rightly report that the messages from the public trickled in to them as well.
“We are receiving several reports of explosions, this is a larger pre-announced firework display from vessels and barges out in Oslo Harbour,” said the police update at 22:58.
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#Oslo #OsloHavn We are receiving several reports of explosions, this is a larger pre-announced fireworks display from vessels and barges out in Oslo Harbour.
— OPS Police Oslo (@oslopolitiops) March 1, 2024
Operations manager Eirik Sannes in the Oslo police district points out that permission has been given to Oslo Harbour, and that the fireworks were set off in connection with an event at the Ekeberg restaurant.
According to See and listenthere will be a surprise party this Friday evening for businessman Christian Ringnes, who turns 70 on Sunday.