The firefighters and teens practise working together to put out fires. Photo: Paloma Vangpreecha/Sveriges Radio.

Lyssna: "The main goal is to create some kind of trust"

Swedish firefighters have stopped threats and attacks, and cut down fires by 70 percent, by working with teenagers in an area of Malmö.

The head of the South Swedish fire service, Attila Jensen, tells Radio Sweden they work with youths who otherwise might not be in school at all, and run activities such as practicing putting out fires.

In 2008-9 firefighters in the district of Rosengård were attacked or threatened 30 times. In 2015 this fell...