Danish firefighters were still at work extinguishing the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old Copenhagen landmark a day after the blaze began
. “This is sad, so sad,” said Mikkel Jensen, a 44-year-old civil servant, as he looked up at the twisted scaffolding still clinging to the ruins of the city's Old Stock Exchange. Morten Langager, manager of the Danish Chamber of Commerce, which was headquartered in the Old Stock Exchange and owned the building, said the building, built in 1615 and known for its green copper roof and distinctive 56-meter spire in the shape of four intertwined dragon tails, should “rise again.
The extent of the damage, caused by flames and the tons of water poured to extinguish them, was still unknown, as was the cause of the fire, which is believed to have started on the building's roof during renovations on Tuesday morning. “It can take a long time to find the cause of a fire,” said Brian Belling, a Copenhagen police officer in charge of the investigation. He added that police had not yet been able to enter the building.
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