The tower of the historic Boersen inventory change collapses because the constructing is on fireplace in central Copenhagen, Denmark on April 16, 2024.
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A hearth broke out on Tuesday at Denmark’s 400-year-old historic inventory change constructing, engulfing its iconic dragon-tail spire which collapsed onto the roof.
The reason for the fireplace at one in every of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings was not instantly clear. There have been no studies of any accidents, Reuters reported, citing police.
Movies and pictures from the scene on Tuesday morning confirmed a violent fireplace engulfing the inventory change 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 sort out the blaze. Some have been seen carrying giant work in an try to save lots of the artefacts from the fireplace.
The incident comes nearly 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 fireplace because the Scandinavian nation’s personal “Notre Dame second.”
“Horrible footage from the Inventory Trade. So unhappy,” Poulsen stated by way of social media platform X, in response to a Google translation. “An iconic constructing which means lots to all of us, I feel.”
Plumes of smoke billow from the historic Boersen inventory change 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 well-liked vacationer attraction famous for its distinctive 56-meter (184 toes) tall spire, the seventeenth century constructing not homes the Danish inventory change. 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 response to translated remarks revealed by way of 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 pictures and artwork treasures from the burning constructing.
Copenhagen Police stated by way of social media that Danish Royal Guard troopers have been poised to help with the rescue of valuables.
Folks take away work and different objects from the historic Boersen constructing which is on fireplace in central Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 16, 2024. A violent fireplace broke out on April 16 morning within the constructing, which is underneath renovation. The constructing was erected within the 1620s as a industrial constructing by King Christian IV and is situated subsequent to the Danish parliament.
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— CNBC’s George Bextor contributed to this report.
