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The deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, said the cathedral had suffered "colossal damages", and the emergency services were trying to salvage the art and other priceless pieces stored in the cathedral. A cathedral spokesman said the entire wooden interior was burning and likely to be destroyed.
Sounds like the whole thing may go up in flames. There's a reason for modern building codes. A structure made entirely out of wood, is a huge bonfire, waiting to happen. Thankfully, at this time, there are no reported deaths.
[Update: 2019-04-16 @ 0222: The Cathedral is not "made entirely out of wood" as was suggested above. There is a great deal of stone work in its construction which can be readily seen on its Wikipedia page. I was at work when I heard news of the fire, immediately took a break, loaded the story queue on my phone, saw a story submission on the fire, and pushed it out to the community. In my haste to get the story out, I failed to notice the erroneous claim about wood construction. I apologize for the error. --martyb]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-today-2019-04-15/
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:21PM (7 children)
wrong
and it was bombed by the Germans and rebuilt after WW II
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:27PM (1 child)
"There's a reason for modern building codes." Yeah, they should have used modern fire sprinklers and modern steel/concrete construction when it was built. "Hey Hunchback... got that bucket of water ready?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @12:47PM
Fire suppressant [wikipedia.org] is used in locations intolerant to water.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:31PM
Wikipedia mentions only "minor damage from stray bullets":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 5, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 15 2019, @09:23PM (3 children)
Good lord! You people are idiots.
No it wasn't. Where the hell did you get that from?
Also
Entirely? Not even close. Have you never even seen a photograph of it?
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Monday April 15 2019, @10:34PM
But I just heard it on the internet. It must be true!
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:26AM
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday April 24 2019, @05:53AM
"A structure made entirely out of wood, is a huge bonfire, waiting to happen." The Sub. And, the Original Summary.
Anommylous was telling you, Summary was very wrong. Because Cathedral isn't -- wasn't -- only Wood. But, you didn't listen!!!!