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Posted on 04/18/2020 6:04:28 PM PDT by marshmallow
Investigators still don't have access to the area where the fire began
One year ago today, the world watched in horror as a fire swept through Paris’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral, sending its spire crumbling to the ground, caving in its ceiling, and setting alight its historic interior. And now, with the country on lockdown, restoration efforts on the Gothic building have been put on hold, forcing a team of 100 engineers, scientists, architects, and archeologists to cease their tireless work on the damaged structure.
The target date for completing the complex and delicate restoration has always been 2024, in time for Paris to host the Olympic Games. But experts have been skeptical of that timeline from the start. And since President Emmanuel Macron announced that ambitious target just two days after the fire, there have been considerable delays—over high winds and record heat that further endangered the weakened structure, investigating concerns that lead pollution unleashed by the collapse of the roof, and now the coronavirus shutdown.
“The aim is to reopen the cathedral in 2024 even though the work won’t all be done,” Stéphane Tissier, director of operations on the project, told TIME. “The objective will be that that the public will be able to reenter in 2024.” (Prior to the current lockdown, there was speculation that the cathedral’s forecourt would be opened to visitors as early as March.)
With work at a standstill, engineers are relying on laser monitoring systems to detect any structural movement that might trigger another collapse. Although firefighters were able to save the cathedral’s nave and twin bell towers, the intensity of the fire still puts the church’s structural integrity at risk.
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Only slightly more mysterious than the 9/11 attack on the Towers and the Pentagon...IMHO...
Were there any Confederate flags around at the time?
Yeah, sure...
I have no idea why you sent that to me but if it makes you feel better about the the hell knows what, I’m all for it :)
That discussion was a year ago.
Do you now think after seeing thousands of my posts that I am a muslim loving, anti American infiltrator? :)
Rest easy. I’m not.
The FF went to ND when there was an alarm.
When they arrived it was said they checked the building and found nothing.
Did the alarm indicate the location of the fire or smoke?
If there wasn't a fire there at least must have been smoldering. Could none of the FF locate the source of the smoke by smell?
They left because they didn't find the fire and dismissed it as a false alarm.
Meanwhile the fire or smoldering continued until there was a second alarm and the FF returned to an out of control blaze.
How carefully did the FF check for a fire when the first alarm went off?
Why didn't any one of them find the fire or locate the source of the smoke?
Was one of the FF a firebug who liked to start fires so he could be a hero as has happened before?
Were there any Muslims on the FF crew?
Were the fire fighters questioned? Is there a report on their interviews?
If none of them were involved they were at least negligent in performing their duty.
No one seems to be interested in investigating the fire fighters.
Truth is hate to people who hate truth, which is why they are unable to tell the truth.
How about the obvious. Muslims torched it, but they are now so woven into the community that it is impossible to expose them for such a heinous crime. The fear of backlash and/or more of the same is too great.
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A year later, they have no idea what caused it. But they knew immediately that it was not jihad.
Definitely, Center Fuel Tank
A year later, they have no idea what caused it. But they knew immediately that it was not jihad.
Yep.
Tells us exactly what, and who, the cause was.
No ‘shroud of mystery’, there.
Exactly.
The timber roof structure was not “prone” to combustion. There must be a fuel source and it would need to be more substantial than a rag.
Where is Inspector Clouseau when you need him?
apparently you didn’t read your freepmail ... try that
I thought it was tracked to workers smoking where they shouldn’t have been, or something along those lines. Initially I was pretty sure it was jihadi joes, but that wasn’t the case.
“It’s spelled M - U - S - L - I - M - S.”
They prefer to relegate it to a mystery rather than tell the truth.
Of course, they know exactly how the fire was set and who did it.
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