NOTRE DAME - FIRE

[esseco46]

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...

[davidc4430]

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.

[kopenhagen5]

Sooooo sad.

850 years of history gone.

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

[joztamps]

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

[davidc4430]

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

[enigmabear]

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

[icyfroth]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

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

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[icyfroth]

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.

[icyfroth]

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-BB...

[joztamps]

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