Fire breaks out in London’s Somerset House, home to works by Van Gogh, Monet [Video]

More than 125 firefighters worked to douse a fire Saturday that broke out at Somerset House, a large central London arts venue that contains priceless works by Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh.

Heavy smoke and flames that could be seen coming from the roof around noon local time had died down a few hours later as firefighters poured water on it from the buckets on ladder trucks. It appeared from video footage that flames had burned a hole in the roof of the building located next to the River Thames.

The cause of the fire was not yet known, the London Fire Brigade said. There were no reported injuries.

Somerset House said staff and the public were safe and artworks were not in the area of …