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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:31PM (4 children)
Those "officials" do not seem honest. They lumped together everyone they hate, and blame them all for church burnings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:39PM (2 children)
So you think it is a false flag? The government agents are doing this to stir up division amongst the yellow vests?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @09:11PM (1 child)
Yep, it was linked to the 9/11 attacks by AI but now they are trying to cover it up:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/youtube-flags-notre-dame-fire-as-9-11-conspiracy-in-wrong-call [bloomberg.com]
(Score: 2) by Barenflimski on Tuesday April 16 2019, @05:35PM
I saw this same banner. I wondered why it was showing me a banner explaining 9/11 to me.
I saw this same banner under the launch for the Falcon Heavy a couple of days ago. Maybe it confused the launch tower and the rocket as two towers and the exhaust gases for smoke from a fire?
This must fall under not so intelligent part of the AI?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @12:49AM
It is strange that satanists are missing from the list.