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Fire breaks out in spire of Rouen Cathedral in northwest France
CBS News ^ | 7/11/24 | Elaine Cobbe

Posted on 07/11/2024 4:47:11 AM PDT by CFW

Paris — The famous medieval cathedral in the city of Rouen in western France was evacuated Thursday when a fire broke out in the spire. The Notre Dame of Rouen Cathedral is undergoing renovations and video from the scene showed thick smoke rising from the spire, which is partially covered in scaffolding.

Fire trucks raced to the scene to save the cathedral, made famous by impressionist painter Claude Monet who depicted the imposing structure in a series of paintings in the 1890s.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; France; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asylum; culture; fire; france; immigration; islam; islamic; migration; muslim; muslims; refugees; rouen
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Strange how such things keep happening to Cathedrals.
1 posted on 07/11/2024 4:47:11 AM PDT by CFW
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Happened when Notre Dame is about to be reopened, and when leftists are rioting and destroying things all over France.

I’m sure Macron will call it an electrical fire.


2 posted on 07/11/2024 4:50:15 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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>>Strange how such things keep happening to Cathedrals.

But now, they’ll get to be renovated with minarets.


3 posted on 07/11/2024 4:54:33 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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4 posted on 07/11/2024 5:01:14 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: vikingd00d

While under refurbishment, Notre Dame burned.

Now Rouen.

Interesting that there are no mishaps at the hundreds of Mosques in France.

All by design, all by design.

Years ago there was a WWII film called, “Is Paris burning”? A true story about the Nazi withdrawal from Paris and Hitler’s order to destroy Paris that was not followed up on by a Nazi officer who just could not do it.

Who would of thought, 80 years later that Paris will burn by the French themselves or at least the Radical Left combined with the Jihadists?

What does it take for the Useful Idiots to wake up?


5 posted on 07/11/2024 5:03:38 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.i)
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they never will.


6 posted on 07/11/2024 5:04:43 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: CFW

One is an accident.
Two is coincidence.
Three...


7 posted on 07/11/2024 5:05:53 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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Strange how such things keep happening to Cathedrals.

Yeah. They've stood for centuries WITHOUT strict fire codes and modern safety technology and then all of a sudden, in the 21st Century....

8 posted on 07/11/2024 5:19:15 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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Yes, first the historic Norte Dame, now this. I cannot help but feel suspicious…


9 posted on 07/11/2024 5:32:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: CFW

Lots of churches have burned in France in the last few years. Lots of churches. Few or No mosques.


10 posted on 07/11/2024 5:34:38 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Netz

Saw that movie way back in 1965. Got it on DVD. Well worth watching.
“Moscow (sigh) Moscow.”


11 posted on 07/11/2024 5:36:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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BTTT


12 posted on 07/11/2024 5:38:31 AM PDT by nopardons
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The Notre Dame of Rouen Cathedral is undergoing renovations and.. the recently-immigrated-Muslim
construction crew are perplexed as to how the fire started.
13 posted on 07/11/2024 6:13:20 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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Coat the cathedrals with an appropriate fire deterrent...pig fat. I bet all “electrical fires will cease.


14 posted on 07/11/2024 6:14:17 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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Coat the cathedrals with an appropriate fire deterrent...pig fat. I bet all “electrical fires” will cease.


15 posted on 07/11/2024 6:14:37 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.


16 posted on 07/11/2024 6:16:19 AM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Where was Michelle this time?


17 posted on 07/11/2024 6:56:52 AM PDT by bgill
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I don’t know. The fire is really far up and would be a helluva climb to get there.


18 posted on 07/11/2024 8:15:16 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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don’t know. The fire is really far up and would be a helluva climb to get there.

Drones.
19 posted on 07/11/2024 8:18:04 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: bgill

...or Joy Reid


20 posted on 07/11/2024 8:19:55 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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