Cooling of the last hot spots is underway. Long-term decay are expected, specifies the spokesperson for Brussels Fire Men, Walter Derieu. The five -story building has undergone major damage due to fire and extinction water.
The fire was noticed shortly before 08:00 in avenue Geo Bernier. When the firefighters arrived at the scene, the duplex, at the fourth and fifth floors of the building, had already been damaged by the flames. “”The fire caused an important cloud of smoke visible in the distance. No one was present in the building and there was therefore no injuries“, Walter Derieuw said earlier. The firefighters took several hours to master the flames. The fire broke out in the back of the building, difficult to access. The firefighters could only attack the fire from the outside, because too much debris fell inside and the floor was too unstable.
Shortly before 12:00 p.m., a secure platform was set up to extinguish the last household from the interior, and finally the fire was completely mastered around 12:40 p.m. The firefighters managed to preserve the adjacent houses.
