COPENHAGEN, April 16, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Danish rescue services said Tuesday that they could not give "any guarantees" that the facade of Copenhagen's 17th-century former stock exchange could be saved as a huge fire engulfed the building.

"The facades are still standing, but they are starting to give way as the construction burns away," director of emergency services Jakob Vedsted Andersen told reporters, adding that "we are trying everything we can to protect the facades, but we cannot give any guarantees."