damn shame... but i'd be amazed if it filled one Mass on Sunday
Posted on 06/15/2015 10:04:52 AM PDT by Morgana
A huge fire has broken out at an iconic church in France.
Dramatic pictures show the top of the Basilica of Saint Donatien in Nantes engulfed in flames.
Firefighters have been called out to deal with the blaze, which appears to have started this morning.
The BBC is reporting that it broke out after morning mass, with worshippers evacuated from the building.
Around 40 firefighters are fighting the flames at the church, which dates back to the late 1800s.
Towering black clouds of smoke can be seen billowing from the roof of the building.
Nantes is in the west of the country, and is the sixth largest city in France with a population of nearly one million people.
More on this breaking story as it happens.
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damn shame... but i'd be amazed if it filled one Mass on Sunday
Yeah you are right France is now total secular state now
how sad, ten bucks says it'll be a mosque in the next 5-10 years...
I used to do arson investigations, and I also represented general contractors, architects, and subs. Did a lot of fire cases over a couple of decades.
If a building is undergoing renovations or construction, the odds are absolutely overwhelming that some negligent act by a subcontractor caused the fire. Usually it is either an electrician who wired something catastrophically wrong, or an idiot plumber is 'sweating' a pipe in close quarters, and is too lazy to wedge the insulation up behind his torch. Everybody goes home at the end of the day, and the mistake smolders until it takes fire. Since this happened around the time of morning Mass (daily Mass is usually pretty early so folks can get to work) it probably smoldered all night and then became visible (or more likely smellable) during the service.
I wouldn't bet the farm on this, but I'd bet a steak dinner.
Good points; I too don’t believe the Religion of Peace is involved. It’s either as you so describe (probably is) or also maybe a fire caused by one errant candle. One time in Mass, the flame in one of the candles someone lit in front of a statue of Mary started to get bigger and bigger for whatever reason. I’m not really sure why. I think because the person who lit it left the little wooden stick in the candle after lighting it.
Anyway it started to become a small conflagration, engulfing the candles around it. Eventually our deacon ran and got a fire extinguisher and extinguished the flame. So anyway if something similar happened here I can see how a poorly lit votive candle could cause a major fire in no time. Especially if there was some construction materials lying around the site.
You are probably correct.
The knee-jerk responses here were astonishing.
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Yep, that’s why the votive candles in our parish come in little heavy glass cups and the candles are WAY down in the bottom . . .
And will this get the press and sympathy Charlie Hebdo got? Probably not...
Or a candle conveniently misplaced?
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