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It wasn’t until the 19th century that large cities began to establish their own brann departementer<\/strong>. \u00a0The Oslo Fire and Rescue Services Department (Brann og redningsetaten<\/strong>), for instance, was founded in 1861 and protects over 500,000 inhabitants. \u00a0There are over 400 employees and 8 brann stasjoner<\/strong> within the department. \u00a0Oslo is a unique capital city with regards to firefighting. \u00a0Workers for the Fire Department can expect to be called to a small one story building in downtown Oslo or they could be fighting a forest fire within the 90+ mile radius of forest land.<\/p>\n Before the 19th century and even afterwards, Norwegians had to deal with highly flammable buildings (sometimes tre<\/strong> through and through), frost, significant heating to keep homes warm, etc. \u00a0The reason why I thought about writing about branner<\/strong> in Norway right now is because I recently saw an article in Aftenposten <\/em>about branner <\/strong>and jul<\/strong>. \u00a0Jul<\/strong> is the h\u00f8ysesong<\/strong> (high season) for brann <\/strong>because of all the elektrisk belysning<\/strong> (electric lighting)<\/strong>and levende lys <\/strong>(literally \u00b4living light,\u00b4AKA open flame)\u00a0that people have in their homes to create the cozy Christmas feeling. \u00a0The time between lille julaften <\/strong>and nytt\u00e5rsaften<\/strong> is statistically the highest risk for branner<\/strong>, but otherwise weekends in desember<\/strong> and januar<\/strong> during the winter are also very susceptible months for many branner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Oslo every year there are over 400 homes that are destroyed by branner, <\/strong>one quarter of which occur in desember<\/strong> or januar<\/strong>. \u00a0The more startling statistikk<\/strong> is that men living in Finnmark<\/em> have the highest likelihood of not surviving a brann<\/strong>. \u00a0If you are interested in checking out the article and trying to decipher it and look at the graphs, click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n Use caution especially during julesesongen<\/strong> whether you have a trehus <\/strong>or not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always been astounded by the amount of coverage branner (fires) get in the Norwegian media. \u00a0I swear in every Norwegian newspaper I open, there is an article about a brann. \u00a0I used to think that perhaps there isn’t enough other interesting stuff to share with the public, so stories about branner naturally…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2010\/12\/1290516368000_brann_dramsv_01_b_3538652708x708r-350x136.jpg\")