Part of Denmark's historic stock exchange reduced to empty shell after blaze

An emergency management worker works following the fire in the building of the Old Stock Exchange, Boersen, in Copenhagen, Denmark , Apr 17, 2024. The blaze that ripped through the 400-year-old landmark building, toppling its spire in a scene reminiscent of the 2019 fire at Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, was still burning in some hard-to-access places.

"Everything that was once part of the storey partitions and building structures inside has been burnt away," Copenhagen Fire Department Operations Chief Frank Trier Mikkelsen told Reuters, referring to the part of the building worst hit.An emergency management worker works following the fire in the building of the Old Stock Exchange, Boersen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Apr 17, 2024.

"There are probably a thousand objects in there but the things I would say are the most important have been saved," Brian Mikkelsen, CEO of the Danish Chamber of Commerce which owns the building, told public broadcaster DR. Putting out the fire was taking longer than expected due to lingering pockets of flames found in the rubble and the work was expected to last at least until Thursday morning.

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