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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @08:41PM (2 children)
Why nuke Mecca, at any given time you will only find a rounding error amount of Muslims there. You just make them angry. Real solutions take time and better plans.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Monday April 15 2019, @09:19PM (1 child)
> You just make them angry
LOL
Show crucifix, they get angry
Want to know whoever is behind that burka not to let terrorists free to roam, they get angry
seriously, don't bother. They are already angry because I just told they get angry easily.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @11:47PM
You need to re-crawl https://www.merriam-webster.com/ [merriam-webster.com]