Posted on 04/15/2019 11:15:06 AM PDT by sodpoodle
PARIS, April 15 (Reuters) - Notre-Dame Cathedral went up in flames on Monday in a roaring blaze that devasted the Parisian landmark, one of France's most visited places.
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Flames burst through the roof of the centuries-old cathedral and quickly engulfed the spire, which collapsed.
A huge plume of smoke wafted across the city and ash fell over a large area.
Firefighters cleared the area around the cathedral, which marks the very center of Paris.
President Emmanuel Macron canceled an address to the nation that he had been due to give later on Monday evening. A presidential official said Macron was to go to the scene of the blaze.
"A terrible fire is under way at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris," Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Twitter.
France 2 television reported that police were treating the incident as an accident.
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Sheppard smith is a leftist homo who loves muslims.
It’s always just a accident caused by some worker...
Information on trying to fight a fire like the ND Cathedral fire...from an actual firefighter.
https://twitter.com/GreggFavre
It had a roof.
First St Denis. Now Notre Dame. Catholicism is under seige in France.
My initial thought. I think the frenchies are so far gone that when the gooners torch the Louvre they’ll let it burn like they let Notre Dame burn!
“...placing my hand upon it on the inside, it was as if I could feel the energy of the millions of souls who had sought refuge there.”
What a beautiful statement. Our existence does not end with our bodily death, and what you say is surely proof of that.
This is a sad day for all of humankind whether each individual soul is aware of it or not.
Notre Dame survived centuries of wars, revolutions, Big Bertha, and the Nazis.
And now this.....Heaven weeps.
Just in from CNN. Muslim with MAGA Hat seen fleeing the scene
Cologne Cathedral was nearly untouched even though the city was flattened. I’m sure the 8th Air Force did their utmost to avoid harming churches. Bombing by day, that was at least possible.
The R.A.F. bombing at night was a different story. But such is war.
Very sad and troubling. My wife and I have been there and admired it’s beauty. I hope it can be restored quickly. If it’s arson, the French government can spend months trying to figure out who did it and why.
The reporter making the speculation that this was arson, was in Paris reporting on the fire. Shep shut him down and ended the conversation. I had the arson thoughts myself. Notre Dame Cathedral was being restored by workers than many could have been Muslim. It would be easy to start a fire high up, while on a scaffold, just as the workers left the building at the end of the shift. The timing of the fire, just as Holy Week commenced, is too coincidental.
It's awfully hard not to think that way since there have been many church desecrations across France this year.
Clergy at St. Paul’s Cathedral literally risked their lives to save it from Nazi incendiary bombs during The Blitz.
Twelve French Churches Attacked, Vandalized in One Week
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/03/20/twelve-french-churches-attacked-vandalized-in-one-week/
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FBI has ruled out terrorism.
So has the Chicago police.
So has Pelosi.
It is not obviously anything. It may be terrorism, it may not. Time will tell.
The National Cathedral is Protestant,,,not Catholic with statues and beautiful art.
Somebody burned something.
True. Notre Dame and everything in it are surely documented to the nth degree. A very meticulous restoration would produce a quite faithful copy. If there were the will do do it. The loss of historical objects is tragic, but the design and decoration can be recreated.
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