The tower of the historic Boersen inventory trade collapses because the constructing is on fireplace in central Copenhagen, Denmark on April 16, 2024.
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A fireplace broke out on Tuesday at Denmark’s 400-year-old historic inventory trade constructing, engulfing its iconic dragon-tail spire which collapsed onto the roof.
The reason for the fireplace 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 trade 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 companies labored to deal with the blaze. Some had been seen carrying massive work in an try to avoid wasting the artefacts from the fireplace.
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 fireplace because the Scandinavian nation’s personal “Notre Dame second.”
“Horrible photos from the Inventory Trade. So unhappy,” Poulsen stated by way of social media platform X, based on a Google translation. “An iconic constructing meaning rather a lot to all of us, I believe.”
Plumes of smoke billow from the historic Boersen inventory trade 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 trade. 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,” based on 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 companies 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 had 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 business 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.
