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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: 1, Troll) by DannyB on Monday April 15 2019, @08:42PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 15 2019, @08:42PM (#830038) Journal

    If so, time to nuke Mecca.

    Uh, no. It is not. That is completely inappropriate.

    It is sacrilage and blasphemous to do so when it is not the Hajj, the sacred time when millions make their pilgrimage to Mecca.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 15 2019, @09:23PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday April 15 2019, @09:23PM (#830072) Journal

    What about nuking it when it is empty, and earlier say a gift from Tel Aviv is coming, and get popcorn?

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 15 2019, @09:27PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 15 2019, @09:27PM (#830076) Journal

      So Paris could nuke it, and make it a false flag operation.

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      • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday April 15 2019, @11:36PM

        by Sulla (5173) on Monday April 15 2019, @11:36PM (#830168) Journal

        I don't know what false flag is false flagging what anymore.

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