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Fire causes woman to leap from fourth floor

A woman leapt from her fourth floor apartment to escape a fire at an assisted living facility in northwest Stockholm early on Monday morning.

Published: 7 December 2009 08:23 CET

“She’s seriously injured and has been taken to intensive care,” said police spokesperson Bengt Kihlberg to the TT news agency.

The fire broke out on the third floor the facility, located on Ormängsgatan in Hässelby, around 1.30am on Monday morning.

According to the Aftonbladet newspaper, the fire started in an apartment on the third floor, causing smoke to spread through the hallways and to the upper floors of the building.

More than 40 firefighters from six stations arrived on the scene to battle the blaze, which was extinguished by 4am.

But the firefighters’ quick work wasn’t enough to stop one panicked resident from leaping from her third floor apartment to the ground below.

A number of the building’s residents were evacuated, although there were no other reports of injuries.

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Situation ‘unstable’ at Copenhagen’s old stock exchange after fire

Three days after a fire which ravaged Copenhagen's historic former stock exchange broke out, emergency services said Friday that the situation was "unstable" due to equipment issues and a strong breeze.

Published: 19 April 2024 17:44 CEST
Situation 'unstable' at Copenhagen's old stock exchange after fire

In the morning, during work to dismantle the scaffolding surrounding the building, a crane’s cutters came loose for as of yet unknown reasons.

It is currently wedged between the scaffolding — put up for the renovation of the historic building that was ongoing — and what remains of the walls.

“It is affecting our efforts”, Tim Ole Simonsen, leader of the operation at the rescue services, told a press conference.

Coupled with the wind picking up, the incident, which has temporarily halted work on dismantling the scaffolding, has made the situation “unstable”.

“The wind is blowing harder and harder, and there are tarps over the scaffolding that can catch the wind,” Simonsen said.

He added that this increases the risks, in particular of further collapse of the burnt-out facade which started collapsing late Thursday afternoon.

Located close to the Christiansborg parliament and seat of government, the Borsen building was commissioned by King Christian IV and built between 1619 and 1640. It was the stock exchange until the 1970s.

The fire began Tuesday morning under the copper roof of the building, which was undergoing renovations ahead of its 400th anniversary.

The cause of the blaze was unknown and Copenhagen police said Wednesday that a major investigation had been launched.

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