A fire on top of the flood
- Although a draft took care of the ventilation of the wax vapor on the ground floor, warm gas rised up and accumulated in highest part of the Main Hall.
- A spark in the condensator ignited an explosion of the gas with a temperature of 5000 ° C.
- The paintings of the ground floor removed in the nearby rooms to dry up were covered with soot.
- But those on the first floor, which had not been flooded, got the full blast of the heat and pressure waves caused by the explosion. removed in the nearby rooms to dry up were soaked with soot.
