Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

namloc1980

Just saw it on Twitter. Absolutely devastating.

namloc1980

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Here's hoping it's not too bad. An absolutely stunning and iconic building.

Yer Da sells Avon

Insurance job.

Zorya

Just saw that news. Looks bad.

WeIrishareEvil

Holy smoke!

Hurrache

Keanu Whining Meal wrote: »

Here's hoping it's not too bad. An absolutely stunning and iconic building.

It unfortunately does not look good.

In this vid it looks to be concentrated around where work was being done, but could just be a coincidence.
https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1117839877566009346?s=19[/quote]

Ghost Train

Looks very bad.

Force Carrier

mon dieu rodney

Franz Von Peppercorn

Oh that’s horrible. Great building.

iamwhoiam

Oh no , such beautiful old building and would be a terrible loss

gozunda

Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Illuminati?

Ghost Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbmWOfdXcQ

WeIrishareEvil

Prayers. Oh wait...

GLaDOS

Hard to imagine anything other than severe damage unfortuntely

iamwhoiam

Pictures on BBC news now . Looks bad . Such a sad sight

kippy

Doesn't look good - seems to have taken hold of the building and looks like a very difficult site to access, get the fire out.
Hopefully there are no casualties. While extensive damage to the building would be awful, a loss of life would be worse.

Beechwoodspark

If this is arson it’s utterly disgusting.

If it is accidental it’s utterly tragic.

Your Face

Reported to be related to the renovation works.
Beautiful building in a stunning area.

Hope the fire is not too destructive but it looks bad.

Itssoeasy

From the pictures I've seen it looks a serious situation and the fire looks to the spreading on the roof.

Force Carrier

We'll build it again. It will be even better this time.

Hurrache

Your Face wrote: »

Hope the fire is not too destructive but it looks bad.

It's totally destroyed, I'm not sure the spire won't collapse.

Sardonicat

Oh, that's so sad. A place steeped in layers and layers of history.

WeIrishareEvil

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

If this is arson it’s utterly disgusting.

If it is accidental it’s utterly tragic.

Quasimodo's revenge

WeIrishareEvil

Force Carrier wrote: »

We'll build it again. It will be even better this time.

As a mosque

Sardonicat

WeIrishareEvil wrote: »

Force Carrier wrote: »

We'll build it again. It will be even better this time.

As a mosque

It's done a stint as a Temple to Reason.

Zorya

WeIrishareEvil wrote: »

As a mosque

Oh stop ffs. :mad:

Spanish Eyes

Terrible, hope it was accidental and not deliberate.

Also hope the Sapeurs Pompiers got there quickly, unless they were on an anti Macron slow down.

Sad to think of all the beautiful medieval architecture destroyed now. Vive La France.

Itssoeasy

Listening to BBC five live and the presenter is saying a good bit of the roof is gone.

WeIrishareEvil

Sardonicat wrote: »

It's done a stint as a Temple to Reason.

So much reason they put thousands to death by guillotine for the Goddess of Reason they installed on the altar.

Yer Da sells Avon

It's been confirmed that it's a fire alright.

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1117845135587520514

Just as I suspected.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Watching it now. So sad and heart breaking. I have many happy memories of times spent there. It looks very bad.

lawred2

That's going to come down... Sad

namloc1980

This picture is devastating. Roof and spire totally gutted:

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hairyslug

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117844987293487104?s=19


Feckin ejjit

Hurrache

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Listening to BBC five live and the presenter is saying a good bit of the roof is gone.

CNN have a couple angles, one of them is showing the fire just gobbling it up. There's no saving it.

Franz Von Peppercorn

The spire is on fire. Disaster. You expect these things to last for ever.

Sardonicat

Just saw a bit on RTE news. The spire is engulfed.

Zorya

First time in ages I have access to a television as I'm in a hotel and it's awful looking footage. That fire is huge, it looks like an inferno. Sad.

Grid.

Ahhh no....that looks terrible!!!:(

Timberrrrrrrr

The spire has gone

thomil

Hurrache wrote: »

CNN have a couple angles, one of them is showing the fire just gobbling it up. There's no saving it.

Not so fast. If the stone work and structure remain intact, it should be possible to reconstruct it. Just look at the damage done to Cologne or Frankfurt cathedrals during World War 2. Notre Dame has the advantage that it’s not being subjected to exploding 500 pounder bombs.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The spire has collapsed into the main body of the building - not good.

Sardonicat

WeIrishareEvil wrote: »

Sardonicat wrote: »

It's done a stint as a Temple to Reason.

So much reason they put thousands to death by guillotine for the Goddess of Reason they installed on the altar.

That wasn't reason, citoyen. That was terror.

castletownman

There is something beautiful and awe-inspiring about cathedral architecture. Perhaps mankinds greatest engineering feats.

Whenever I go to a foreign city, I make sure to check out a cathedral if there is one. So peaceful to sit with my thoughts to myself even if I don't consider myself religious.

Have yet to get to Paris, but Notre Dame was certainly on the bucket list.

So sad to see.

Force Carrier

Catastrophic. It is like watching a bulldozer tear down Stonehenge. Or a child splattering paint all over the Mona Lisa. Has anything so priceless ever been destroyed by fire before?

branie2

Awful!

Your Face

Ara will ye all f off with politics.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Events like this show how bad RTE is to react. News on now but nothing about it.

Edit. News ended and no mention in headlines recap.

TheValeyard

Horrible. So much history with that building.

For Forks Sake

WeIrishareEvil wrote: »

As a mosque

Are you proud of that?