The bridge in Kvænangen municipality in Troms and Finnmark has received a “serious search”. The detour goes via Finland.
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– E6 is the main traffic artery that connects Norway. Norway is now divided in two, says operations manager Karl Eirik Thomassen to VG.
The bridge is in Badderen in Kvænangen municipality in Troms and Finnmark.
– It is still standing, but has received a serious search. No one is injured, https://twitter.com/polititroms/status/1531672878948786177 Troms police district.
The emergency services move out to the scene. There are no detours on site, except via Finland.
The detour via Finland makes the normally 381 kilometer long road between Tromsø and Alta, a road of 545 kilometers, writes NTB.
So far no one was able to send in the perfect solution, which is not strange. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration sends a contractor to the site.
Operations Manager Thomassen says that it was a road user who reported.
– He has also helped prevent others from driving over. There is an old bridge next to it as smoke last year, says Thomassen.
By 6.30 pm, the police had not arrived.
– The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has sent out a contractor to assess it. But that does not sound like a quick fix. If the bridge fails, it sounds serious, says the operations manager.
Mayor of Kvænangen municipality, Eirik Losnegård Mevik, tells the newspaper Framtid i nord that the municipality is in contact with the State Administrator to find a solution to the situation.
– What the municipality is doing now is to put someone on duty on the E6 in Burfjord that will get the heavy traffic locked aside. Then we also have people on site at the bridge who take care of, says Mevik.
