Peace Frog Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Holy sh*t, this is bad. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/world/massive-fire-breaks-out-in-notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris.amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Report I was just emailed said the spire collapsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly12 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Notre Dame cathedral spire falls as fire rages By Ruth Brown April 15, 2019 | 2:08pm | Firefighters were still fighting to keep the fire under control Monday evening local time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet_Engine1 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 They can't get ahead of it, most of the roof is down, just protecting the exposures now. ******* horrible. 1000 year old Cathedral. Wow. I pray this was an accident, but if not..... the DGSE does NOT **** around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Peace Frog Posted April 15, 2019 Author Share Posted April 15, 2019 31 minutes ago, Jet_Engine1 said: They can't get ahead of it, most of the roof is down, just protecting the exposures now. ******* horrible. 1000 year old Cathedral. Wow. I pray this was an accident, but if not..... the DGSE does NOT **** around. Cannot f-ing believe this. What a gorgeous cathedral. Haven't been since 1999 and I don’t think I was going back to Paris anytime soon but goddam this sucks. Glad I took the kids to see it at least that one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lith Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Was just there this past summer. What a shame. Hopefully some of the cathedral and artwork inside can be saved. And hopefully the 400+ firefighters inside the cathedral are all safe as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache 51 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEndTheSuffering Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 This is horrible. I couldn't believe it when I first saw the news. Hopefully everyone in the area is safe and if somebody did this on purpose death should be the penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache 51 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 We were just there what a shame................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crimson King Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 structure is now safe the roof and a spire are gone along with a few priceless relics. Stained glass windows and. more importantly, the organ are all intact Was in this place on the eve of 9/11/01. Everyone was praying and crying. Glad to see it survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Apache 51 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 If you ever go to France go here, it's a must you will be glad you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 So the architect in charge of the fire plan thought the timbers wouldn’t burn quickly so there was no auto fire alarm the fire department wasn’t called for 31 minutes someone had to make a 6 minute walk up steep steps to confirm the fire before any action was taken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet_Engine1 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 2 hours ago, Larz said: So the architect in charge of the fire plan thought the timbers wouldn’t burn quickly so there was no auto fire alarm the fire department wasn’t called for 31 minutes someone had to make a 6 minute walk up steep steps to confirm the fire before any action was taken Then that lays at the feet of the Fire Marshal in charge of plan review and implementation of Fire Code (whatever standard they use in France). Per NFPA 1 and 101, an assembly that size would be mandated to have at the very least a fire alarm and notification system. And even a historic structure can and obviously should be retrofitted with a Fire Sprinkler system in some capacity for fire protection. Also, FD access issues should have been addressed years ago, and updated to accommodate new apparatus. But I'm not the Paris Fire Marshal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai Jet Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Larz said: So the architect in charge of the fire plan thought the timbers wouldn’t burn quickly so there was no auto fire alarm the fire department wasn’t called for 31 minutes someone had to make a 6 minute walk up steep steps to confirm the fire before any action was taken So 800 year old dried out timbers wouldn't burn quickly. Brilliant ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 3 minutes ago, Thai Jet said: So 800 year old dried out timbers wouldn't burn quickly. Brilliant ! Somethings about the type of wood but yeah real bright they actually factored that into the fire safety plan they thought they had 20 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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