France: Fire breaks out at Notre Dame cathedral

[arista]

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All the Old Wood
burning fast


A fire has broken out at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, firefighters in France have confirmed.

https://news.sky.com/story/fire-breaks-out-at-notre-dame-cathedral-11694910

[UserSince2005]

:fire:

[Smithy]

This church is on fireeeeee

[RileyH]

:fire:

[SherzyK]

This church is on fireeeeee

:joker::joker:

[arista]

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[RileyH]

'doesn't look good!' :eek:

[arista]

Trouble is
there is so much old timber in that Historic Church

[Marsh.]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/VXFBIzbgEco12/200.gif

[bots]

The bells, the bells

[Tom4784]

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Miss Frollo SNAPPED.

[bots]

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i think Ally has left the building, probably looking for Quasimodo

[reece(:]

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[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/04/15/18/12307640-6925015-image-m-14_1555349367026.jpg

[Moniqua]

notre DAMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNN :o

[bots]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/04/15/18/12307640-6925015-image-m-14_1555349367026.jpg

that building isnt going to be there in an hour

[Tom4784]

Yeesh, it looks ****ed.

So much for the Hunchback of Notre Dame live action remake?

[Alf]

I just turned on BBC news channel to watch the challenge cup draw and this nonsense is on. Get it off.

Challenge cup draw > Notre Dame fire

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/04/15/18/12307276-6925015-image-a-2_1555348981963.jpg

[Rob!]

Omg :o

That fire is huge.

[Alf]

Quasimodo having a ciggie in the Belfry.

[arista]

The Problem is
its filled with dry old timber


Sad Day for France
its 850 years old

[arista]

I just turned on BBC news channel to watch the challenge cup draw and this nonsense is on. Get it off.

Challenge cup draw > Notre Dame fire


Buggered up your Sports news

[UserSince2005]

This is not funny, i am going to have to deal with an angry french boyfriend tonight :(

[arista]

that building isn't going to be there in an hour


Yes No Sprinklers

[user104658]

In all seriousness, this is pretty tragic :(

[Strictly Jake]

Yeah watched it on the news about 10 mins ago. What a shame

[bots]

In all seriousness, this is pretty tragic :(

got any barbecue sauce?

[arista]

Building Works Going On.

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[Tony Montana]

Watching it now on BBC News

Tragic

[arista]

The Roofs have gone.



It took 100 years to build.

[Smithy]

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-gasps in French-

[hijaxers]

got any barbecue sauce?

Not at all funny ! This is an incredible piece of history :fist:

[Twosugars]

a beautiful old church, prime example of the gothic architecture
will be rebuilt but such a cultural tragedy

[arista]

The Flames have gone down a bit.

[UserSince2005]

Its so weird, in 500 years people will visit this monument and learn about this fire.

[andybigbro]

An iconic building :( hope no one is hurt

[arista]

They say no one is hurt
850years ago it was built.

[arista]

https://e3.365dm.com/19/04/768x432/skynews-paris-notre-dame_4640844.jpg?bypass-service-worker&20190415184347

[Liam-]

I hope Quasimodo got out :worry:

[Liam-]

But no seriously, this is a massive shame, it’s a beautiful building

[Shaun]

:( how awful. It looked beautiful.

[arista]

They saved the Copper Statues
reports say.

[user104658]

a beautiful old church, prime example of the gothic architecture
will be rebuilt but such a cultural tragedyThe steeple just fell, so sadly it can't really be restored. It could be reconstructed but it wouldn't be anything more than a replica.

[Cherie]

So sad, such a beautiful old building :sad:

[joeysteele]

A tragedy.
I love visiting this Cathedral.

[Underscore]

Saddening :(

[Alf]

It's survived so much in almost a millennium. What went wrong in 2019?

[Underscore]

Its so weird, in 500 years people will visit this monument and learn about this fire.

not if rising sea levels haven't engulfed it by that point

[LaLaLand]

This is awful :(

[Marsh.]

It's survived so much in almost a millennium. What went wrong in 2019?

Global warming.

[Crimson Dynamo]

God outsold?

[bots]

i blame the Drunks, Homosexuals, Adulterers, Liars, Fornicators, Thieves and Atheists

[Crimson Dynamo]

i blame the Drunks, Homosexuals, Adulterers, Liars, Fornicators, Thieves and Atheists

Drag that chat thread

[montblanc]

this is so sad :( all that history and art :(

[Scarlett.]

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[Cal.]

So sad.

[reece(:]

SAVE her :(

[MTVN]

They're now saying the structure will hopefully be saved

Amazing efforts from the firefighters

[Babayaro.]

People acting sad lol

Name 5 of their albums!

[Mystic Mock]

They're now saying the structure will hopefully be saved

Amazing efforts from the firefighters

Well that's great news if they really have been able to save the structure.

Does anyone know what caused the fire? What I mean by that is has there been any news on if it was deliberately caused by anybody or not?

[Marsh.]

People acting sad lol

Name 5 of their albums!

:skull:

[Ammi]

..it’s an incredible building, very sad..:sad:...what a devastating and emotional sight for those people looking on with the flames in the skyline...but as heartbreaking as it is, there was no loss of life...a building can be rebuilt and restored...life can not...and incredible that the main body and structure seems okay..or might be..?...

[Kazanne]

Such a shame to see the spire fall so many relics etc lost forever so glad the towers survived and I hope they can restore most of it,always sad when something beautiful is destroyed

[Nicky91]

awful, but i agree with Macron it needs to be rebuilt, no matter what the cost is, Notre Dame is an important landmark for France


perhaps the wood had gotten old, and maybe it was in need for entirely renovating anyway, now i would also install sprinkler system to prevent it getting out of control again


i liked the people on the Streets singing those French hymns, prayer songs

[Samm]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

This would not be clogging up our British news if we had brexited as normal

I am sure we have plenty good church fires to report about


:oh:

[Niamh.]

People acting sad lol

Name 5 of their albums!

It is sad though, it was a beautiful building with 100's of years of history attached to it

[Nicky91]

This would not be clogging up our British news if we had brexited as normal

I am sure we have plenty good church fires to report about


:oh:

If is a very big word though, brexit was never meant to go normal from the start

something like that can only go normal when all parties want the same thing, and that will never happen i think

[Livia]

Heartbreaking watching this on the news last night. Such a beautiful and historic building, it'd be like St Paul's going up in flames.

[bots]

i like historic buildings but i am not emotionally attached to them. They are only bricks and mortar at the end of the day, and have a shelf life, like anything else.

It's a shame and all that, but I'm more pleased there were no fatalities.

[Crimson Dynamo]

If is a very big word though, brexit was never meant to go normal from the start

something like that can only go normal when all parties want the same thing, and that will never happen i think

Its not about what parties want its what people want.

A large bus that went a few meters in London for one day and went on the news briefly for one day promised me that it would give me money and I will never forget that bus - nor the promise it made to me, like I forgot about the Pro_EU brochure that The Government dropped through every British door with 14 pages and cost £9,000,000 or when the leader of the free world was wheeled out to support the EU either

:oh:

[Niamh.]

i like historic buildings but i am not emotionally attached to them. They are only bricks and mortar at the end of the day, and have a shelf life, like anything else.

It's a shame and all that, but I'm more pleased there were no fatalities.

I don't think anyone is actually inconsolable with grief about it but it is sad :laugh:

[Northern Monkey]

Looking at it.For 856 years old,It seems to have been very well built.
They don’t make em like that anymore.

[Alf]

i like historic buildings but i am not emotionally attached to them. They are only bricks and mortar at the end of the day, and have a shelf life, like anything else.

It's a shame and all that, but I'm more pleased there were no fatalities.There are millions more people that are more emotionally attached to this building, than there are people emotionally attached to my life. This building is more important to the World than I am.

Evelyn Waugh once said that in the event of a fire in his house, if he was able only to save his children or his library, he would save his library, because books were irreplaceable.

[The Slim Reaper]

After Vicky's confession about her childhood, does anyone know if she was in Paris yesterday? :suspect:

[Cherie]

There are millions more people that are more emotionally attached to this building, than there are people emotionally attached to my life. This building is more important to the World than I am.

Evelyn Waugh once said that in the event of a fire in his house, if he was able only to save his children or his library, he would save his library, because books were irreplaceable.

Unless he is cloning his children they are irreplaceable as well..what a clown!

[Tom4784]

Thankfully, it seems that the stained glass windows have survived and apparently there's been hundreds of millions of euros pledged to rebuild it. It won't be the same but it will survive.

Imagine if this fire was caused by someone tossing a ciggy on their break. Imagine being known throughout history as the person who almost burned down Notre Dame with a discarded cigarette.