Fire in Frankfurt Tower, 43 meters
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Date: 2017-10-12

The Frankfurt Goethe Tower was one of the financial city's most popular attractions and Germany's tallest wooden observation tower. Early Thursday morning the fire service were called to the scene and had no choice but to let it burn.

At 3.20 am Thursday morning, the fire department was called to the Goethe Tower in Frankfurt am Main after "numerous emergency calls."

By the time the emergency services arrived, the flames were burning so high that the 43-metre tall wooden tower was considered too dangerous to extinguish, so the fire service secured the surrounding area and tried to prevent the fire from spreading