The fire apparently started in the sub-roof before spreading into the roof itself. At 9:15 p.m. the building was still on fire and there was significant water damage.
Thirty firefighters on site
“The Wagyu is destroyed and it will certainly be months before it can reopen“, declares the mayor Philippe Bontemps, who rushed back down from Tohogne to Durbuy, barely finished with the oath-taking. While his advisors were drinking a glass of friendship, he was taking measures to close the Durbuy bridge in traffic, during the intervention of firefighters around thirty coming from the Marche-en-Famenne, Hamoir, Érezée barracks, who were still on site at 10 p.m. where they were supplied.
At that time, the fire was under control, but not yet extinguished.
Marc Coucke in the evening via social networks: “Courage to my team,… We will be back!”
“The fire is not yet under control,” said Marc Coucke at 7:45 p.m. “Courage to my team, they worked so hard after the floods. The month of December was full…”. “I fear we will have to build a new hotel, it’s terrible”he then clarified to our colleagues at VRT Nws. “The damage is enormous, but we will be back!” (Editor’s note: “We will come back!”
