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Traffic began to flow Monday near Copenhagen’s historic Old Stock Exchange which was half-destroyed by fire last week. ”Now we are at a stage where the police can come in and inspect some things,” said Jakob Vedsted Andersen, head of the Greater Copenhagen Fire Department, adding that police quickly checked out wreckage after firefighters stabilized it. The cause of the fire was still unknown, Vedsted Andersen said.

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Traffic began to flow Monday near Copenhagen's historic Old Stock Exchange which was half-destroyed by fire last week.

As the blaze ripped through the 400-year-old Copenhagen landmark on Tuesday, passersby jumped off their bicycles to help firefighters, conservators and soldiers retrieve valuable paintings.

Art conservators are assessing the damage to centuries-old paintings recovered from a blaze that destroyed Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange this week, the National Museum of Denmark said on Thursday. As the blaze ripped through the 400-year-old Copenhagen landmark on Tuesday, passersby jumped off their bicycles to help firefighters, conservators and soldiers retrieve valuable paintings. "It had to be fast," Nina Wajman, a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, told Reuters.

STORY: There was a loud bang as the brickwork came down and a cloud of ash enveloped the building. Chief Vedsted Andersen told reporters they had tried to stabilize the building, but... -April 18, 2024 at 06:29 pm EDT - MarketScreener