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Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

  • 15-04-2019 6:31pm
    #1
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,329 ✭✭✭✭


    Just saw it on Twitter. Absolutely devastating.


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  • #2
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,329 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    .


  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


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


  • #4
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Insurance job.


  • #5
    Zorya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    Just saw that news. Looks bad. :(


  • #6
    WeIrishareEvil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭WeIrishareEvil


    Holy smoke!


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  • #7
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭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]


  • #8
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,381 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Looks very bad.


  • #9
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    mon dieu rodney


  • #10
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Oh that’s horrible. Great building.


  • #11
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


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


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  • #12
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    Illuminati?


  • #13
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,381 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


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


  • #14
    WeIrishareEvil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭WeIrishareEvil


    Prayers. Oh wait...


  • #15
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Hard to imagine anything other than severe damage unfortuntely

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #16
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,153 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


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


  • #17
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,779 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    If this is arson it’s utterly disgusting.

    If it is accidental it’s utterly tragic.


  • #19
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


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


  • #21
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


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


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  • #22
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


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


  • #24
    WeIrishareEvil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭WeIrishareEvil


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    If this is arson it’s utterly disgusting.

    If it is accidental it’s utterly tragic.


    Quasimodo's revenge


  • #25
    WeIrishareEvil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭WeIrishareEvil


    Force Carrier wrote: »
    We'll build it again. It will be even better this time.

    As a mosque


  • #26
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    Zorya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    WeIrishareEvil wrote: »
    As a mosque

    Oh stop ffs. :mad:


  • #28
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,996 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


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


  • #30
    WeIrishareEvil
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭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.


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  • #31
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


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

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

    Just as I suspected.


  • #32
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


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


  • #33
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    That's going to come down... Sad


  • #34
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,329 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    This picture is devastating. Roof and spire totally gutted:

    ..


  • #35
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭hairyslug


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


    Feckin ejjit


  • #36
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


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


  • #38
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


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


  • #39
    Zorya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    Grid.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,370 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


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


  • #41
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,644 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    The spire has gone :(


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  • #42
    thomil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,401 ✭✭✭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.

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • #43
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


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


  • #44
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,493 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭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?


  • #47
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Awful!


  • #48
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Ara will ye all f off with politics.


  • #49
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Horrible. So much history with that building.

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #51
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    WeIrishareEvil wrote: »
    As a mosque

    Are you proud of that?


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