The sails that were being made as part on the reconstruction of the VOC ship Batavia were destroyed. Ten years of intense labor has been lost! Large parts of the buildings at the shipyards are also lost.

(source: telegraaf.nl)

Firefighters are doing their utmost to avoid that the fire misses replicas of the 17th century warship De 7 Provinciën and Bataviastad. Luckily, the replica of the Batavia has been saved from the fire.

In the area there were some loud bangs because of exploding gas tanks. The damage is in the hundreds of thousands.