COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Hearth fighters labored by means of a second evening to quell remaining flames that destroyed Denmark’s Outdated Inventory Change and can keep on web site for at the least one other 24 hours, Copenhagen’s fireplace division stated early on Thursday morning.
The blaze ripped by means of the 400-year-old landmark on Tuesday, toppling its spire and likewise triggering the collapse of a big roof part, in scenes paying homage to the 2019 fireplace at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
The flames that flared in a single day had been primarily within the basement of the constructing, and had been shortly put out, rescue officers stated.
In components of the constructing solely outer brick partitions remained as every thing else had burned, whereas a few of the sections nonetheless standing had flooring that had been waterlogged from efforts to place out the fireplace, reporters allowed inside on Wednesday stated.
“The work to stabilise the freestanding outer partitions will proceed for a lot of the day,” the Better Copenhagen Hearth Division stated on social media X.
Massive containers crammed with bricks had been being stacked to assist the broken partitions and stop the historic brickwork from collapsing.
The Danish Chamber of Commerce, which owns the constructing and makes use of it for its headquarters, has vowed to rebuild the enduring trade which initially opened as a commodities buying and selling venue within the seventeenth century.
The constructing not homes the inventory trade.
Police investigating the incident stated it may take months to find out the trigger. Nobody was harm within the blaze.