Copenhagen mayor to take lessons from Notre Dame after Old Stock Exchange blaze

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COPENHAGEN: Firefighters worked through a second night to quell the remaining flames that destroyed Denmark's Old Stock Exchange, while the Copenhagen mayor was invited to Paris to learn

View from the tower of the Parliament as emergency management is still working on the fire at Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange, the Boersen, in Denmark , Apr 17, 2024. that destroyed Denmark 's Old Stock Exchange, while the Copenhagen mayor was invited to Paris to learn how the city dealt with a similar fire at Notre Dame Cathedral.on Tuesday , toppling its spire and triggering the collapse of a large roof section, in scenes reminiscent of the 2019 fire in Paris.

As attention turned to how the building could be restored, the mayor of Copenhagen, Sophie Haestorp Andersen, said she would travel to Paris next month. "She invited me and a team to Paris to look at how they dealt with the situation there." In parts of the building only outer brick walls remained as everything else had burned, while the floors of some of the sections still standing were waterlogged from efforts to douse the fire, reporters allowed inside on Wednesday said.

Large containers filled with bricks were being stacked to support the damaged walls and prevent the historic brickwork from collapsing.

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