Notre Dame (Paris) in ruins

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  1. joe

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    Flying water tankers should put this situation to rest
     
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  3. Brook!

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    Apparently Paris doesn't have those according to one retired firefighter who just spoke on France24 channel. Such a shame. I hope it isn't a terror attack. The world doesn't need this.
     
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    They have them but being a wood frame structure it would possibly cause the entire structure to collapse
     
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    King Twitter thinks it would work though.@REALdonaldtrump

    That retard should stick to reality tv and not fighting fires. They are trying to save the weakened structure from the 13th century; not destroy it, as Waterboy notes above

    . Not only that those aerial tankers spray at acres and acres of land in wildfires and they struggle hitting that mark. Our president thinks they can hit a singular structure on a city block in Paris. Holy shit
     
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    They do think the building and other tower will be saved though now. Thank God
     
  7. Biggs

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    I predict it will be resurrected.
     
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  8. GordonGecko

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    Gross. I bet it was arson
     
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    O/u 2.5 days?
     
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    Some irony in this post
     
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    Idk they were doing work on it, I think it was probably an accident related to that. At least I hope so. That would be awful if it was arson
     
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    Boy I hope my 401k isn’t holding any shares of the GCs insurance carrier.
     
  13. NYJetsO12

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    I was in Paris 19 years ago . ND is a beautiful and awesome place, but no Sanctuary for Quasimodo today..

    Unlike this country, France puts tons of $into their cultural heritage while we admire and enrich a couple of baseball players.

    They will Salvage and Restore..

    Prayers..
     
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    First off I hope it was not terrorism but I fear it might have been secondly I do not know if the tankers would have worked or not but the structure sure collapsed anyhow so would it have mattered had they attempted it ? Its amazing that there were not a ton of injuries or deaths,,,prayers
     
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  15. GordonGecko

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    I spoke to a French guy at work and he told me the opposite, that they go cheap on these restoration projects because they are super expensive. His theory is that they skimped on some safeguards or electrical systems and when the fire started they had no way to contain the fire
     
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    Actually Brook, the post above yours was not a sincere suggestion about about remedying a situation so much as it was taking advantage of Trump's idiotic tweet to go "political" (a TGG no-no) in the midst of an architectural, cultural (and spiritual to many) calamity. That Trump's tweet was rash and ill-informed is not in question (the hell with him and his tweet) - that someone could not have the common sense let alone the decency to separate the two. is . (i.e. time and place).

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    That's a shame if its true..

    Gut says it will get political during the French Investigation and ..excuse the pun..heads will roll
     
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    Well they didn't have a fire suppression system built in, but retrofitting a structure that big and that old like that with modern day fire suppression would've been insanely expensive. They had a retired FDNY chief on the TV last night and even he said that with a structure like that, the best and most reasonable option is fire prevention.

    But that's just the building itself. all the welders and shit working on it? yeah its definitely possible they went cheap on potential safeguards they couldve/shouldve had
     
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    The Catholic Church should finance the restoration. The French government shouldn't take this on. Even though the Church is a part of the historic Paris landscape, the Church itself is a religious institution. None of the restoration should be publicly financed by the State. It would be a serious violation of Frances secular state.
     
  20. GordonGecko

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    The secular sector gets just as much if not more benefits from that cathedral that the Catholic church does. 13 million visitors a year come to see it and spend plenty of money along the way. Plus it's a very historical structure, no matter how religious these types of places are they are all very important around the world
     

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