Copenhagen and Paris mayors discuss lessons learned after fires wreck landmarks

Fire and smoke rise out of the Old Stock Exchange, Boersen, in Copenhagen, Denmark (Ida Marie Odgaard/AP)

The mayor of Copenhagen has been in touch with her Paris counterpart to see what can be learned from the reconstruction of the Notre Dame cathedral in the French capital, after a fire devastated the Danish city’s 400-year-old stock exchange building.

Firefighters were still at the scene two days after a blaze destroyed half of Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange, which dates from 1615, and collapsed its iconic dragon-tail spire.