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BREAKING: Paris prosecutor's office reportedly investigating the Notre Dame Cathedral fire as an accident https://t.co/6kxJYl4yIM— LIVE Breaking News (@NewsBreaking) April 15, 2019

BREAKING: French President Macron vows to rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral, adds that they will seek international help to do so - AP— LIVE Breaking News (@NewsBreaking) April 15, 2019

BREAKING: French President Macron says that the "worst has been avoided" in the Notre Dame Cathedral fire - AFP— LIVE Breaking News (@NewsBreaking) April 15, 2019

BREAKING PHOTOS: Fire crews continuing to work to save the Notre Dame Cathedral as the fire burns into the night (AFP) pic.twitter.com/H7aCY6r0NY— LIVE Breaking News (@NewsBreaking) April 15, 2019

BREAKING: The Notre Dame Cathedral's main structure and two towers have been saved following the massive fire, according to French fire official https://t.co/6kxJYl4yIM— LIVE Breaking News (@NewsBreaking) April 15, 2019

“BREAKING: Paris prosecutor’s office reportedly investigating the Notre Dame Cathedral fire as an accident https://t.co/6kxJYl4yIM—; LIVE Breaking News (@NewsBreaking) April 15, 2019”

Nothing like forming a conclusion before you’ve even begun to investigate...

BREAKING: French President Macron says that the "worst has been avoided" in the Notre Dame Cathedral fire - AFP— LIVE Breaking News (@NewsBreaking) April 15, 2019

I hope and pray it is so.

The worst that could happen would be for the roof, composed of massive timbers supporting tons of slate shingles, to fall on to the ancient vaulting of the cathedral causing it to collapse to the floor below. The force of such a failure would blow out many if not all of the windows in the cathedral as well as destroying everything crushed by that stonework.

Nelson DeMille provided a vivid depiction of such a terrorist (IRA) attack on St. Patrick's Cathedral in his early '80s novel Cathedral...and St. Patrick's vaulting is plaster!