Plumes of smoke billow from the historic Boersen inventory alternate constructing which is on fireplace in central Copenhagen, Denmark on April 16, 2024. The constructing, one of many oldest within the Danish capital, was present process renovation work when within the morning it caught fireplace, whose trigger was but unknown.
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A hearth broke out on Tuesday at Denmark’s 400-year-old historic inventory alternate constructing, engulfing its iconic dragon-tail spire which collapsed onto the roof.
The reason for the hearth at considered one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings was not instantly clear. There have been no stories of any accidents, Reuters reported, citing police.
Movies and pictures from the scene on Tuesday morning confirmed a violent fireplace engulfing the inventory alternate constructing, or Boersen, which had been present process renovation work.
Crowds of individuals gathered within the Danish capital as black smoke billowed from the constructing and emergency providers labored to deal with the blaze. Some had been seen carrying giant work in an try to avoid wasting the artefacts from the hearth.
The incident comes virtually precisely 5 years after a mammoth fireplace ravaged the Notre-Dame Cathedral within the French capital of Paris, which despatched shockwaves throughout the globe on April 15, 2019.
Denmark’s Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen described the hearth because the Scandinavian nation’s personal “Notre Dame second.”
“Horrible footage from the Inventory Alternate. So unhappy,” Poulsen mentioned through social media platform X, in keeping with a Google translation. “An iconic constructing which means so much to all of us, I believe.”
Plumes of smoke billow from the historic Boersen inventory alternate constructing which is on fireplace in central Copenhagen, Denmark on April 16, 2024. The constructing, one of many oldest within the Danish capital, was present process renovation work when within the morning it caught fireplace, whose trigger was but unknown.
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A preferred vacationer attraction famous for its distinctive 56-meter (184 ft) tall spire, the seventeenth century constructing now not homes the Danish inventory alternate. It now serves because the headquarters of the Danish Chamber of Commerce and is located subsequent to Christiansborg Palace, the seat of the Danish Parliament.
Denmark’s Tradition Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt lamented what he described as “400 years of Danish cultural heritage in flames,” in keeping with translated remarks revealed through X on Tuesday.
He added that it was “touching” to expertise how staff on the constructing, in addition to emergency providers and native residents, had labored collectively to attempt to save iconic photographs and artwork treasures from the burning constructing.
Copenhagen Police mentioned through social media that Danish Royal Guard troopers had been poised to help with the rescue of valuables.
— CNBC’s George Bextor contributed to this report.