Five cubic meters of sulfuric acid on Oceana during the fire

In a side building to Liseberg’s Oceana bathhouse, there were plastic tanks with sulfuric acid and sodium hypochlorite, and an important part of the rescue effort was to ensure that the fire did not reach the chemicals, according to the rescue service’s new incident report.

The emergency services took the support of Liseberg’s experts regarding the chemicals to prevent that “the fire or a building collapse could cause a chemical release or a gas cloud”.

Fire at Liseberg’s Oceana bathhouse

In the risk assessment, it is also written that there is a “risk of chlorine gas emissions if the chemicals in the basement (sodium hypochlorite and sulfuric acid) are mixed”.

NCC also contacted contractors and made a contingency regarding the chemicals, which meant, among other things, that “current employees entered a nearby hotel and were on standby”.

Five cubic meters of sulfuric acid

There was a fire near the basement, according to the report.

“Two firefighters from Gårda extinguishing material burning in front of the doors, which lead into the basement where chemicals are stored,” the incident report reads.

It will be about two plastic tanks containing five cubic meters of sulfuric acid and five cubic meters of sodium hypochlorite, both of which are commonly used in bathhouses to purify the water.

The report states that NCC’s designers were called in during the rescue work and found that the joists down to the basement were dimensioned to withstand a collapse of the glulam beams.

“This thereby eliminated the possibility that the chemicals in the basement could be affected by the construction in the event of a collapse, and that the working environment for own staff in the basement is considered safe.”

SVT is looking for Liseberg for a comment.