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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @01:03AM (2 children)
Here is the "offending" post:
https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=31108&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&page=1&cid=830091#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
Here are some links to my other posts in this thread. Notice they all contain sources or ask for sources? :
https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=31108&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&page=1&cid=830016#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=31108&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&page=1&cid=830021#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=31108&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&page=1&cid=830039#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=31108&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&page=1&cid=830100#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=31108&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&page=2&cid=830125#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
So I conclude that now asking for proper scholarly behavior is frowned upon on this site because it may offend someone.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @01:10AM
And look how well-sourced that post is. I count 10 sources in one that post, I could have left out the links to the comments but why make you work harder to check the context of those posts?
So you can see I treat others as I expect to be treated. Keep insulting people like me if you want a community of people just saying crap without providing sources like I see on reddit.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:27PM
How much work did it take to dig all that up? It takes time which we don't always have. Further, assuming the links actually support your position (a common foible), then we have people either ignoring the post or questioning [soylentnews.org] it on spurious grounds (my article reference was questioned based only on looking at the quote I provided, choosing the first footnote of six from that quote, and taking the single court case so mentioned out of context).
I guess my point here is that ultimately, the medium can't compensate for the users. I already have ideas on what would work (since it did work [foresightexchange.com] in the past), but that takes putting in some sort of market infrastructure .