Notice more importantly that the Norwegian police have not yet identified the owner of the car that blew up.
Remember how the ambulance drivers in UK don't go off break just to go pick up the sick and injured, what we have here is a GOVERNMENT WEEKEND SHUTDOWN. The cops can't access the motor vehicle data base because the computers are shut down, or there's no one around who can use that system.
It's MidSummer and this happens every year in Scandinavia ~ they just shut down for the Midnight Sun thing (which is actually only the 20 Hour Sun thing at this latitude, but the twilight is pretty heafty so it's difficult to sleep).
Doesn't matter how serious the disaster is NOTHING is going to happen that would violate the vacation rights of the government employees.
When I was in the service in Germany years ago the Scandinavians would start showing up in early June and we didn't see the last of them until Mid-August. They'd crowd up the beer joints, mob the restaurants, make it impossible to get in to see historic places ~ you name it ~ and they'd even wander in from offpost and try to get hamburgers at our snackbar.
Think of the old people wandering from buffet to buffet trying to get food in that South Park story. Just like that ~ only Swedes and Norwegians, not just old people.
I lived in Sweden for a number of years, and didn't realize the library also shut down. I mean, you'd think someone would assume that with everyone on vacation, people might want to read, right? I was so shocked I didn't know what to do, because all I do is read. I had to borrow English language books from my friends to keep my sanity, but it was almost all stuff I had read in high school and didn't really want to read for fun.
They definitely take their vacations seriously. I had a doctor friend who worked in the ER, and he warned not to get sick during the summer because you just might not get a doctor.