# Fire with damage running into millions; Week number 71-09

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.; Fire in the former Karel I cigar factory in the district Tongerle in Eindhoven. The fire brigade of Eindhoven, Philips and the surrounding municipalities fight the fire. The fire was probably started deliberately in a storage for plastic. Mayor H.B.J. Witte looks at the fire which destroyed, besides plastic, the stocks of a trading company, a top hat factory, the local pharmacy of the Eindhoven hospitals and 40 million cigars were also lost.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1971
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producent) / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (beheerder)
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miljoenen-brand-507936.ogv)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Polygoon-Profilti (producent) / Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (beheerder)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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