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- Fire breaks out at Brazil’s National Museum in Rio
- Massive fire tears through Rio's 200-year old National Museum
Posted on 09/03/2018 1:40:28 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
RIO DE JANEIRO — A fire engulfed the National Museum of Brazil on Sunday night, ravaging the stately, 200-year-old museum in Rio de Janeiro and threatening the years of history encapsulated inside.
Aerial video posted by the television station Globo showed roaring flames and billowing smoke overtaking the large museum. Windows on multiple floors across the museum displayed a burning orange color, and the glow of the fire lit up the dark night sky.
The destruction to the building was significant, and it is unclear whether any historical artifacts had been saved. The museum housed a collection of more than 20 million items, including Egyptian mummies, Greco-Roman artifacts, dinosaur fossils and the oldest human fossil in the region, known as Luzia.
[See what ancient and native artifacts were at risk in the museum.]
Nobody was believed to have been injured in the blaze, which started about 7:30 p.m. local time, when the museum was closed, fire officials said. Several hours later, firefighters were still working to put out the enormous fire.
Michel Temer, the president of Brazil, tweeted that it was “a sad day for all Brazilians.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Michel Temer, the president of Brazil, tweeted that it was “a sad day for all Brazilians.”
“The loss of the National Museum collection is incalculable for Brazil,” he wrote. “Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge have been lost.”
$5 says it’s arson.
So I take it the museum had not been retrofitted with a fire suppression sprinkler system?
Think you are correct.
Fake News Fake History.
Have not seen that aspect discussed.
A little late to say threatens, the fire has done its damage.
The photo I saw on Drudge made the loss look total. Every window lit orange and the roof appeared to have collapsed.
Not yet.
I cannot imagine why there was no effective fire suppression system
Thanks Texas Fossil.
You take it correctly. One does that after a need is shown, such as after a devastating fire.
Yes. Almost total loss.
Yes, if you go to the NYT article or click on the links I posted in the excerpt, there are many images showing during and after shots. Almost total loss.
Was huge building. Now masonry shell.
From last link in my post:
https://twitter.com/anabeat05826201/status/1036419236032335884
Bia gomes @anabeat05826201 20h20 hours ago Replying to @MichelTemer
Cala a boca! Esse foi o orçamento do Museu esse ano.
Vc e sua gangue destruíram o país.
Escória é isso que vc é .
Translated from Portuguese by Microsoft
Shut Your mouth! That was the museum budget this year. You and your gang destroyed the country. Scum is what you are.
2018 numbers until April
Thank you, there were a lot of very good photos and some videos at the source link.
I read that it could be an electrical problem — a short or spark of some sort — or a hot air balloon. Yes, hot air balloon. Evidently it’s a Brazilian tradition to launch small homemade hot air balloons containing candles or some other compact heat-generating flame, and these same balloons often land on rooftops, causing many fires year in and year out.
These days, I’m not surprised. The marvel is that it diesn’t happen more often.
Socialists ruin everything.
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