399 year old Stock Exchange goes up in flames.

[ingemann]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68824189

Denmark's historic old stock exchange building in the centre of Copenhagen has been engulfed by fire.
The 17th Century Børsen is one of the city's oldest buildings and onlookers gasped as its iconic dragon spire tumbled into the street below…

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A complete catastrophe.

[President Johnson]

Feels like the Danish version of Notre Dame, to which it was already compared to by media and public officials.

Seems like there were some construction workers for duty around? I wonder whether one is unintentionally responsible for the fire. The guy might feel really bad.

[Damocles]

Cue the inevitable flood of maroon avatars claiming that "nothing of value was lost" and that "it was deserved" due to the building "symbolizing capitalist greed" or some other such nonsense.

[Ⓐnarchy in the ☭☭☭P!]

Feels like the Danish version of Notre Dame, to which it was already compared to by media and public officials.

Seems like there were some construction workers for duty around? I wonder whether one is unintentionally responsible for the fire. The guy might feel really bad.

On the 5th anniversary to boot. Coincidence?

[ingemann]

Feels like the Danish version of Notre Dame, to which it was already compared to by media and public officials.

Seems like there were some construction workers for duty around? I wonder whether one is unintentionally responsible for the fire. The guy might feel really bad.

On the 5th anniversary to boot. Coincidence?

Almost certainly. Outside these being important historical buildings they have little in common.

[Ancestral Republican]

Cue the inevitable flood of maroon avatars claiming that "nothing of value was lost" and that "it was deserved" due to the building "symbolizing capitalist greed" or some other such nonsense.

Crickets

[Benjamin Frank 2.0]

Cue the inevitable flood of maroon avatars claiming that "nothing of value was lost" and that "it was deserved" due to the building "symbolizing capitalist greed" or some other such nonsense.

I was hoping for jokes on late stage capitalism.

[CumbrianLefty]

Something eerie about it happening on the cusp of a major anniversary too.

[Tintrlvr]

Feels like the Danish version of Notre Dame, to which it was already compared to by media and public officials.

Seems like there were some construction workers for duty around? I wonder whether one is unintentionally responsible for the fire. The guy might feel really bad.

The pictures I saw made it look like the whole thing was covered in a scaffolding, presumably for a renovation. The lessons of this and Notre Dame are clearly that renovations are the most dangerous time to be a historic structure, and maybe teams renovating especially significant historical buildings need more anti-fire training for dealing with historical structures that are much more prone to burning than modern buildings.

[ingemann]

Feels like the Danish version of Notre Dame, to which it was already compared to by media and public officials.

Seems like there were some construction workers for duty around? I wonder whether one is unintentionally responsible for the fire. The guy might feel really bad.

The pictures I saw made it look like the whole thing was covered in a scaffolding, presumably for a renovation. The lessons of this and Notre Dame are clearly that renovations are the most dangerous time to be a historic structure, and maybe teams renovating especially significant historical buildings need more anti-fire training for dealing with historical structures that are much more prone to burning than modern buildings.

Yes, this is very much the conclusion here.