BREAKING: Paris landmark, Notre Dame Cathedral, is on fire!

Werewolf · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:32

robfosters said:
They’re used for fires over large areas, not fires the size of a big church. You’d only have a split second to dump it.

Also they take a lot more time to get ready and up into the air, as they don't just have them sitting at Paris Airport,

They'd have to be scrambled and flown in, which likely takes hours.

pacegod · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:32

dowie said:
Quite possibly could be something as dumb as a builder carelessly tossing a cigarette.

It more likely someone doing hot works to the roof and left a torch going unattended, that happens an awful lot.

Stephanie Peterson · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:32

Ohh dear thats so so sad, such an amazing place as well.
Hope they got all the contents out before hand.

koolpc · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:32

Terrible. What else can be said? I guess everything inside will be lost.

dowie · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:33

StriderX said:
Imagine if Westminster burnt down...

We can but dream...

Randomface74 · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:34

StriderX said:
Imagine if Westminster burnt down...

Could be cheaper than repairing it.

StriderX · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:35

dowie said:
We can but dream...

Joking aside on his matter, Westminster is due renovations soon... could you imagine Big Ben collapsing on the street.

Azza · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:35

I presume a university or another institute will have detailed 3d mapping of the building?

robfosters · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:36

Werewolf said:
Also they take a lot more time to get ready and up into the air, as they don't just have them sitting at Paris Airport,

They'd have to be scrambled and flown in, which likely takes hours.

Ok, so I think we’re all agreed that Trumps being a plank again

StriderX · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:37

Apparently the entire frame is alight... it will be a stone skeleton.

robfosters · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:37

dowie said:
We can but dream...

It’s the people in it that’s the problem, not the historic building.

Lord-Jaffa · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:40

StriderX said:
Imagine if Westminster burnt down...

Should be ok, its full of asbestos.

Hedge · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:41

My friend had me looking at destruction of heritage sites in Syria etc. The loss of ancient buildings through war and scum like ISIS makes this fire seem like a drop in the ocean.

(not saying the fire isn't horrendous though.)

ci_newman · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:42

StriderX said:
Apparently the entire frame is alight... it will be a stone skeleton.

I've heard that reported too

Just a matter of hours until the outer walls collapse now. Access to the frame to extinguish the fire is blocked by the walls themselves

Gerard · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:43

https://twitter.com/x/status/1117845745984593924

Doubt this will have survived =/

Lord-Jaffa · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:44

Gerard said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1117845745984593924

Doubt this will have survived =/

Tragic loss of a magnificent building.

DXP55 · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:49

I went there with the school in 1958 - that is sad - .

Nasher · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:50

Finding it hard to believe this was an accident.

Randomface74 · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:51

Must be webcams on it constantly, and tourists taking pictures, gotta be evidence.

Someone will be working on it already.

physichull · 15 Apr 2019 at 19:59

Looks like fire is crawling up the front towers now