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Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

namloc1980

Just saw it on Twitter. Absolutely devastating.

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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

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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?

Franz Von Peppercorn

Your Face wrote: »

Ara will ye all f off with politics.

I haven’t see any. French news says it was an accident.

Beechwoodspark

Imagine the anger if this turns out to be arson. I fear for France.

Hurrache

thomil wrote: »

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.

There's no saving it from the fire is what I was implying. I think a lot of the construction is wooden too.

Sardonicat

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Horrible. So much history with that building.

If those walls could talk.....

Hurrache

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

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.

Ah c'mon, Sky News were slow getting to it, even France 24 had a panel discussing politics while CNN had live coverage.

Spanish Eyes

Keanu Whining Meal wrote: »

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

You'd wonder what could have caused such a devastating inferno. There was probably a lot of wood in there though.

Still hoping it was a blowtorch or some other accident and not something sinister.

Iconic building with so much history, and grand architecture, more or less gone now.

suicide_circus

sad news.

Je suis Quasimodo

Gael23

It is very much an unfolding situation so not on all news outlets just yet. Hard to see how severe damage can be avoided

WeIrishareEvil

Just to point out that Norwegian Black Metal legend Vrag Vikerens who went to prison for burning churches now lives in France...

[Deleted User]

It was on Rte news..