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Every Sunday at 5:00 PM you can find a new episode of Van Rossem Vertelt on our channel. Subscribe to our channel so you don't miss anything! Almost all old cities have a history full of city fires. Not so strange, if you consider that until the Middle Ages the cities consisted of only wooden buildings. Moreover, most cities did not have a fire brigade. So if there was a fire in the city, it burned really bad. Utrecht also has a number of major city fires, with the one in 1253 as the low point: four hundred to five hundred houses were burned to ashes. But there is something remarkable: after about 1430, there are only rarely fires in the city. Maarten van Rossem investigated how that is possible. For the latest (sports) news, weather and traffic, live streams and our radio and TV programs from the city and province of Utrecht, visit https://www.rtvutrecht.nl Don't want to miss anything? Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/2plk1Yp Want to watch more videos? Click here: https://bit.ly/2opWc15 (C) RTV Utrecht