The fire service said the workers tried and failed to extinguish the blaze and it spread behind the external cladding "extremely quickly due to the dry nature of the material".

BBC: The damage to the roof

The path leads past a dry-stone wall, marking the boundary of a nature reservation.

BBC: The perfect trip: Switzerland

His first job, in a general trading firm in Warsaw, involved him writing letters in Yiddish about the price of dry goods, but alongside this he knew a charmed existence close to nature in the wilds of north-eastern Poland, hunting or just tracking a legendary variety of game.

ECONOMIST: Memoirs