According to a spokesman for the fire service, the building was not easily accessible and demolition work was necessary to extinguish the fire. “The fire was mainly in the ridge of the building, which is a kind of attic. The floor below had completely burned away, so we couldn’t stand there. Because the building was too unstable and dangerous to extinguish from the inside, we extinguished the fire from fought outside. We had to remove roof tiles for that, and it took a while before we were really close to the fire.”
Large fire in Zeist extinguished, resident and firefighter injured
