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Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof Collapse as Fire Rages

posted by martyb on Monday April 15 2019, @08:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-don't-build-them-like-they-used-to dept.

Freeman writes:

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/

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by aristarchus on Monday April 15 2019, @08:31PM (5 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday April 15 2019, @08:31PM (#830023) Journal

    Paging janrinok!! Irrelevant systemd comment in the FS! Search for the dog-whistle keyword, "bonfire".

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Monday April 15 2019, @09:28PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 15 2019, @09:28PM (#830077) Journal

    1. Make irrelevant systemd comments.
    2. ???
    3. Prophet

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    • (Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Monday April 15 2019, @09:42PM (3 children)

      by Bot (3902) on Monday April 15 2019, @09:42PM (#830088) Journal

      Cathedral structures built using wood. Some logs were thus lost, beyond recovery. I would not discount that the entire incident involves systemd trying to spread to new, wait for it, architectures.

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by hemocyanin on Monday April 15 2019, @09:58PM

        by hemocyanin (186) on Monday April 15 2019, @09:58PM (#830107) Journal

        I want a "groan" mod -- or the ability to mod you funny and overrated at the same time.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 16 2019, @02:45AM (1 child)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 16 2019, @02:45AM (#830255) Journal

        Cathedral structures built using wood

        Should've used gradle. Or, better still, the more popular npm-build
        (grin)

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @10:03PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @10:03PM (#830647)

          If they used npm it would still be in beta.