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Rita, a reader, despatched in a photograph of the Previous Inventory Change’s inside final 12 months.
Danish emergency providers have mentioned that they don’t assess that smoke from the fireplace is extra harmful than atypical constructing smoke, however that residents ought to maintain their distance and search medical consideration in the event that they expertise respiration difficulties.
“We’re saving every part we presumably can,” a spokesperson for the fireplace division advised reporters, Reuters reported.
Second spire collapses at Copenhagen’s previous inventory alternate – video
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Firefighters spokesman Jakob Vedsted Andersen mentioned the fireplace, which started this morning within the copper roof of the Previous Inventory Change, unfold to a lot of the constructing and the roof, elements of which additionally collapsed, and destroyed the constructing’s inside, the AP reported.
As much as 90 members of a military unit had been additionally deployed from a close-by base to cordon off the world and “safe valuables.”
Rescuers scramble to avoid wasting historic artwork
Philip Oltermann
In addition to being a historic constructing in its personal proper, the Copenhagen Inventory Change additionally holds certainly one of Denmark’s most useful collections of artwork, which rescue employees and volunteers scrambled to avoid wasting from the flames this morning.
Most notably, the first-floor assortment contains the enduring portray “From the Copenhagen Inventory Change” by Nineteenth-century Danish-Norwegian artist Peder Severin Krøyer. Pictures from the location confirmed eight folks, together with one man carrying a biking helmet, ushering the 254cm by 409cm portray to security.
Completed in 1895, the portray reveals an extended line of inventory alternate folks in coattails standing within the constructing’s corridor. It was paid for by the folks portrayed within the image, with these within the entrance row having paid 550 Danish crowns to be most seen and cheaper charges for these on the again. The artist was handsomely reimbursed, with the entire price amounting to the up to date equal of round 1.55m Danish crowns.
Kasper Nielsen, of public sale home Bruun Rasmussen, advised Ekstra Bladet newspaper that Krøyer’s image was price tens of millions of Danish crowns. “It’s a piece of Danish historical past – each the architectural and the artworks”, he mentioned. “If all the Inventory Change – God forbid – burns down, then we’re trying on the lack of top-end, inalienable cultural heritage”
The portray is just not the one piece of artwork of excessive worth contained in the Inventory Change constructing. Nielsen advised Ekstra Bladet that the entire worth of the gathering amounted to lots of of tens of millions of Danish crows.
Tobias, a reader, writes in: “I witnessed the very first moments of the fireplace at Børsen this morning.”
I cycled previous the Børsen constructing with my children on the best way to high school this morning at round 7:30 am. We heard the fireplace alarm going off within the constructing, however there was no smoke but. Only a few moments later the primary hearth engines got here speeding not far away of Christiansborg Palace in the direction of Børsen.
The primary Copenhagen hearth station is sort of shut in order that they had been on the scene actually quick. However solely fifteen minutes later after I had dropped my children off at college the fireplace was already large and smoke was hanging over the town. The constructing didn’t stand an opportunity it appears. Everybody at work is sort of upset as we speak. It truly is an iconic constructing for Copenhageners.
Listed below are extra photos from Copenhagen this morning.
The scaffolding across the Previous Inventory Change constructing made it tougher for the emergency providers to get by means of to the flames, whereas the copper roof was preserving the warmth, the Copenhagen hearth division mentioned, Reuters reported.
The close by finance ministry was evacuated.
Right here’s extra footage of the fireplace.