
Smoke in the stairway? Stay in the apartment, keep doors and windows closed and wait for fire department5.3.2026 15:16:52 EET | Suomen Palopäällystöliitto ry | Press release
Finnish apartment buildings are designed so that a fire does not spread immediately from one apartment to another. Structural fire compartments prevent fire and smoke from spreading, when doors and windows are closed, are reported from the Finnish Association of Fire Officers (SPPL). In the event of a fire in an apartment building, it is important for your own safety to stay in your own apartment if the fire is elsewhere in the building. That is because life-threatening smoke may have spread to the stairway outside your apartment. If the fire is in your apartment and you cannot extinguish it, leave the apartment and close the doors and windows so that smoke and fire won’t spread to the stairway.


















