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NOTRE DAME - FIRE

esseco46 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:24:01 GMT

I hope it wasn't deliberatelyt lit.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-16/notre-dame-cathedral-paris-engulfed-by-fire-roof-collapses/11018158

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davidc4430 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:37:46 GMT

it was in the act of being 'retored' i'd bet the truth will be some kind of electical fault in something the retorers were using.

you wouldnt really want to be the boss of the company doing the restoration today.

we are looking at billions of $ damage, and honestly you cant rebuild a building like that and call it fixed.

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kopenhagen5 — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:11:40 GMT

Sooooo sad.

850 years of history gone.

I am also guessing some tools or something from the restoration has sparked the fire.

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joztamps — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 01:33:02 GMT

Maybe someone forgot to put out one of the pots of molten lead they were using to restore the leadworkj.

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davidc4430 — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:29:42 GMT

maybe Quasimodo was having a smoke in the bell tower and fell asleep?

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Anonymous — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:48:58 GMT

https://www.9news.com.au/world/paris-notre-dame-cathedral-fire/212496ec-ecfe-40c3-906f-cd0debc8f333?fbclid=IwAR3N_8wGluFYmeIOq2Et0EwXHJQdQHDmnE5x6hVVVvb8QJimQ0KpaZyz2Hk

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icyfroth — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:33:55 GMT

@davidc4430 wrote:
maybe Quasimodo was having a smoke in the bell tower and fell asleep?

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icyfroth — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:37:47 GMT

It's a very sad thing to see historical buildings like that being destroyed by the elements.

Hubs and I visited Notre Dame a few years back...the history just seeps in to you...

Then again, it's been changed and damaged and restored many times over the centuries. I'm sure It can recover from this setback.

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icyfroth — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:52:50 GMT

Billionaire gives 100 million Euros to rebuild Notre-Dame

One of France's richest men is to donate 100 million Euros (AUD$158 million) towards the rebuilding of Notre-Dame.

In a statement given to the French newspaper Le Figaro, billionaire François-Henri Pinault, who is married to the actress Salma Hayek, said he hoped the money would help to "completely rebuild Notre-Dame".

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/billionaire-gives-100-million-euros-to-rebuild-notre-dame/ar-BBVYJ74?ocid=spartanntp

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joztamps — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:36:32 GMT

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2019/04/conspiracy-theories-about-notre-dame-fire-are-already-beginning-spread

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davidc4430 — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:42:39 GMT

i heard a discussion overnight about just how difficult it will be to rebuild this, the timbers required are from oak trees of a certain size. there arnt enough oak trees in the world big enough to remake the beams.

the original beams were from trees hundreds of years old at that time.

clever buggas are we, we have used up all the trees that would be big enough to recreate the timbers used in notre dame.

it was said you would require a 42 square kilometer forest of trees of an age of over 300 hundred years old.

so the rebuild will stumble at the first hurdle.

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davidc4430 — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:40:31 GMT

Electrical short circuit may have caused Notre Dame fire, French officials say

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-19/what-caused-notre-dame-to-go-up-in-flames/11031782

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davidc4430 — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:44:19 GMT

team anounced for rebuild!

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icyfroth — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 01:35:49 GMT

There'll always be an element of suspicion.

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icyfroth — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 01:39:17 GMT

@davidc4430 wrote:
i heard a discussion overnight about just how difficult it will be to rebuild this, the timbers required are from oak trees of a certain size. there arnt enough oak trees in the world big enough to remake the beams.
the original beams were from trees hundreds of years old at that time.
clever buggas are we, we have used up all the trees that would be big enough to recreate the timbers used in notre dame.

it was said you would require a 42 square kilometer forest of trees of an age of over 300 hundred years old.
so the rebuild will stumble at the first hurdle.

They'll have to use something else, then, won't they!

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davidc4430 — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 01:41:58 GMT

Notre Dame 'miracle' as cathedral's rooftop bees and hives survive fire

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-18/notre-dame-beehives-appear-to-have-survived-inferno/11026894

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*kazumi* — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 04:05:44 GMT

Fortunately, the hives are on the sacristy roof, which is considerably lower than the cathedral, it is way bellow the level of the windows, which all survived, and the sacristy is sticking out away from the main body of the cathedral. And the stone walls around the roof area and the would give more protection against the heat. The fire destroyed the wooden roof structure, and in 3 places the vaulted ceiling collapsed, but once the burning wood fell down the firemen were dousing it with water. That is why so much inside is also OK.
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This picture shows bit more how far the bees were from the cathedral and how much higher the roof is

You can see where the fire made most of the damage - all the yellow

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kopenhagen5 — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 06:16:11 GMT

Thanks kazumi. Very informative.