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Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on fire

Postby Workingman » 15 Apr 2019, 18:19

Just seen it on the BBC website. Here

Looks to have gone up lick a bale of straw!
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Re: Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on fire

Postby cromwell » 15 Apr 2019, 18:21

That's going to be some serious damage by the looks of it.
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Re: Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on fire

Postby Kaz » 15 Apr 2019, 18:25

Just seen this on a news website, it looks very serious :(
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Re: Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on fire

Postby JanB » 15 Apr 2019, 18:29

Looks dreadful :cry:
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Re: Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on fire

Postby TheOstrich » 15 Apr 2019, 19:21

Devastating. Apparently one of the central spires has collapsed.
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Re: Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on fire

Postby Kaz » 16 Apr 2019, 10:15

Hopefully they have saved the structure, according to news I've seen this morning!
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Re: Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on fire

Postby Weka » 17 Apr 2019, 08:09

Hopefully the rebuilding is not too arduous.
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