Notre Dame on fire - looks pretty serious

[petemurphy]

dandarez said:

I'm reading comment from the authorities that is an 'accident', so was it one of the construction workers or more responsible up on the scaffolding? They've been removing works from up there for a while now.

Or more sinister?
There has been a spate of attacks on Catholic churches etc this year.

https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-ch...

tbh the amount of hotels in uk that have burnt in the last year from restoration work am not surprised. you would have thought they would have had a plan though

[Leonard Stanley]

So said:

That doesn't work either.

Grim

[ChevronB19]

petemurphy said:

dandarez said:

I'm reading comment from the authorities that is an 'accident', so was it one of the construction workers or more responsible up on the scaffolding? They've been removing works from up there for a while now.

Or more sinister?
There has been a spate of attacks on Catholic churches etc this year.

https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-ch...

tbh the amount of hotels in uk that have burnt in the last year from restoration work am not surprised. you would have thought they would have had a plan though

Plus the Glasgow School of Art, twice, sadly.

[Gameface]

Wow. Brave firefighters on BBC news channel.

[p1stonhead]

Leonard Stanley said:

So said:

That doesn't work either.

Grim

How much of the structure is timber? Hoping it’s just the roof and it burns itself out!

[jonny142]

CBS showing live stuff and repeat just now of the tower coming down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbmWOfdXcQ

[anonymous-user]

I take it back, just Seen the firefighters on BBC now on the roof towers. Bloody brave if you ask me.

[E34-3.2]

They have folded away the outside water hose from the ground. Nothing can reach at that hight.

Scary to see the firefighters on the top of the building knowing that it can colaps at any time! Balls of steel.

[Halb]

SKy/bloomberg have live feed.

BBC has best shot/angle...v close!!!

Very sad, roof has gone, I suppose the stained glass has gone too.

[poo at Paul's]

Fuelled by all the booze there, no doubt...………. The Bells

[johnxjsc1985]

I know its "only a building" but its devastating to see it burn like this . 800 years 2 world Wars and now this.Very sad.

[MiniMan64]

It’s going to be an empty shell by morning surely....

[E34-3.2]

It doesn't look good at all, they are boundary cooling all around...
Looks like only the stones will be left.

[Halb]

johnxjsc1985 said:

I know its "only a building" but its devastating to see it burn like this . 800 years 2 world Wars and now this.Very sad.

the beeb just said, the NAZI in charge of Paris ignored orders from Berlin to 'burn' Paris, and allowed Notre Dame and the rest to survive.

[Baby Shark doo doo doo doo]

red_slr said:

Very odd colour smoke?

Cannabis farm?

[Vanden Saab]

good viewing on BBC4 they now have a serious water cannon style platform spraying water in. It looks like they could do with another 20 of them... Very sad. Was there a couple of years ago, amazing building even to an atheist like me...

[p1stonhead]

Heartbreaking to see this. So many hundreds of years of history gone in an hour

[Pantechnicon]

red_slr said:

Very odd colour smoke?

I would imagine there is a lot of lead on that roof would that cause it

[RemyMartin81D]

johnxjsc1985 said:

I know its "only a building" but its devastating to see it burn like this . 800 years 2 world Wars and now this.Very sad.

No, it's normal to feel sadness over beautiful architecture burning down to the ground. All the history

[ChemicalChaos]

Pantechnicon said:

red_slr said:

Very odd colour smoke?

I would imagine there is a lot of lead on that roof would that cause it

This. Melted lead and associated fumes everywhere, I would not want to be in the vicinity of any of that smoke!

Given the amount of very well seasoned timber in thay structure, I suspect it'll be a total loss much like the famous bombed out church in Liverpool.
However, given the ESA and the Cutty Sark have both been successfully rebuilt after major fire I wonder if the same thing could be attempted on a much larger scale?