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I've heard that the civilian population was evacuated by germans, and that the fire was started by ammo train which exploded on train station.

(Tsapluuna (talk) 23:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)) There was an article about this subject in Finnish "Kansa Taisteli" war magazine. One German veteran of Lapland war told that the town was partly on fire and the Germans had ammunition train near some burning buildings. They had wounded soldiers nearby and they didn't want to risk that the ammunition train would kill their own soldiers if it caught on fire and blew up so they pushed the train away with tanks. The train had for some reason moved back to it's original position and it was caught on fire, exploding and setting many more buildings on fire. There was already fighting going on bethween the Finns and Germans so it was not possible to try to extinguish the fire at this point. I have heard the Germans tried to some extent to prevent the fire from spreading. It is probable that the fire started because Germans blew up some government buildings but setting the whole town on fire by purpose when it was occupied by own troops doesn't make sense to me.

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