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What bravery from those who stayed and saved all that.
That is a blessing. You can re-build a great cathedral - though it will never represent the same historic accomplishment; but you can’t re-create the artworks.
Looks like the Frenchies were well-prepped for such a scenario. While everyone yelled at them for not putting out the first fast enough, they had busy little bees moving stuff out the back. Thank you Lord!
This sounds wrong.
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I have been chasing this all down.
There is more to this building than is common.
The ‘ceiling’ of the church is stone, with a roof of wood.
The wood burned above and only fell inside at one, albeit large hole.
It is an expensive mess, and some stuff was destroyed...but the really cool stuff is just fine.
I could be wrong, there are many conflicting reports.
Read today 13,000 oak trees were cut to build this church.
I got to see it in 89...when I did not appreciate such things.
What about the stained glass?
A blessing...
If the report was accurate saying that the relics and art were saved, I'd guess they'd been removed some time ago because because of the fundamental renovation that was already underway.
I hope he knows whereof he speaks.
Fire prevention in an 800 year old building should be managed and organized like safety at a nuclear power plant or petrochemical plant. I somehow doubt that it was even close.
Even the stained glass windows?
The rose window alone - words fail me.
When I saw the first snippet of news on tv, the first thing I said - out loud to myself was - “I never saw it.”
Thank you, God.
Good. Hopefully they can rebuild it much better with sprinkler systems and all that.
Previous reports with some pix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3742241/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3742234/posts
And the stained glass?
Glad I visited Notre Dame in 96.
My GF wanted to go to Disneyland Paris instead.
I think what a lot of people are missing here is that the fire started in “the attic”.
I doubt much of value was stored there. This ain’t gramma’s house.
The fire took a long time to get downstairs. Fire prefers to go up or sideways to going down.
There was a lot of time to clear the most valuable stuff out of the way. If I had been in charge of the project, I would have started with two teams, one at the altar and/or sacristy, and one under the fire working outwards and then along the long axis.
No doubt lists of the most valued items exist, and people who have dedicated themselves to the care of the building and its contents were consulted.
It took the Spaniards 700 years to boot the muslims out of Spain.
France better get started cleaning the stone age jihadis out or there won’t be a country called France.
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