Oostende In Ostend raged Monday afternoon, something for 16 hours, a heavy fire on the roof of a building. A huge black plume of smoke was seen above the city.
The fire came by roofingswerken on the roof of a house at the Hendrik Conscienceplein. At that time there were three workers on the roof. “The workers were timely from the feet. For one of them, however, this was in the nick of time. When we arrived, the husband was down in the crawl with a ladder from the neighbor,” testified captain Dirk Maertens of the fire brigade from Ostend. At that time, was the plume of smoke already miles and miles away to see. In the meantime, there were also a few explosions of gas cylinders, which were used for the roofing, to hear.
