Fire in Denmark at birth of heir to the throne.
Home Guard has registered that there will be 213 beacon fires lit across the land when Denmark has a new heir to the throne, but the list is growing every day.
When Mary gives birth to Denmark's heir to the throne, the Home Guard will light more than 200 beacon fires across the country to celebrate.
As a chain of fire will the beacons spread from Copenhagen out into the country, and fittingly the first beacon will be lit close to Amalienborg. At 18.30 (on the day it happens) it will be lit a beacon at Grevens Bastion at Kastellet in Copenhagen. The chain of fire will, if everything goes according to plan, end only 15 minutes later, probably at Skagen and at Bornholm.
"We're working on being ready to light fires kl. 18.30, but considering that there isn't visual contact between all the bonfires, we've got a back-up phoneline," says Lisbeth Frost Jensen, project leader for the Home Guard.
It is hoped that the beacons will work as in ye olde days during times of war, when they were a sign of warning spreading across the country.
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(It's stories like this that makes you realize that the papers are awaiting the birth, it's an interesting story, but a filler...)
