A fire tore through part of Geneva's Jardin Anglais on Saturday morning, gutting several trees and damaging a lakeside building used by the Mouettes ferry service.
The blaze started in bamboo undergrowth just before half past five, climbed into the trees and jumped to the building before 16 firefighters brought it under control by six o'clock.
Four to five pines were badly damaged and some had to be felled. No one was hurt.
The cause is not yet known, but the current drought is thought to have played a role.
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