Liège: a significant fireplace ravages the previous Bavarian hospital

A serious fireplace broke out within the former Bavarian hospital, in Liège, round 7:20 p.m. this Sunday. A number of witnesses pressed our orange Alert Us button.

Contacted by us, the Liège police spokesperson specified that the fireplace “declared himself within the left wing of the previous deserted constructing of the Bavarian hospital. Firefighters are working to extinguish it. To permit firefighters’ automobiles to intervene, rue des Bonnes Villes and a part of boulevard de la Structure are quickly closed and site visitors is diverted to different roads within the district.“.

The firefighters have been capable of intervene in a short time, their barracks being positioned lower than 200 meters from the fireplace. Based on the Liège police zone, the fireplace was beneath management this Sunday round 8:20 p.m. The reason for the fireplace will not be but identified.

The previous Bavarian hospital, whose facade is listed, had been deserted for a number of years, however continued to be occupied by squatters. One other fireplace had already ravaged the best wing of the previous hospital in 2017.