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Breaking news - Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on fire

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2 minutes ago, NowThis said:

epic photo, thanks for that. 

don't the french have the bigass planes that dump the orange fire retardant? Or the water dumping helicopters? They really are slow at everything. 

Pour wine on it maybe. 

Jesus, those aircraft are not all just sitting around ready to go. Took three days to get them to Bastrop during those fires and the planes were sitting in Oklahoma. 

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Just now, wood said:

Everyone is slow at mobilizing these aircraft, even if they happen to be in the area, which isn't likely. They aren't just sitting around everywhere. They're in areas where there are lots of forest fires.

username checks out.

Just now, thestud said:

2019 Stupid talk not going away

Heh ... yep.

5 minutes ago, NowThis said:

epic photo, thanks for that. 

don't the french have the bigass planes that dump the orange fire retardant? Or the water dumping helicopters? They really are slow at everything. 

Hey genius. What happens when you dump heavy amounts of water on a structure that could very easily crumb given the vast majority of the frame is already gone?

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1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Pour wine on it maybe. 

Jesus, those aircraft are not all just sitting around ready to go. Took three days to get them to Bastrop during those fires and the planes were sitting in Oklahoma. 

Oklahoma isn't a model of efficiency. 

1 minute ago, mdmost said:

Hey genius. What happens when you dump heavy amounts of water on a structure that could very easily crumb given the mass majority of the frame is gone?

nah, it'll disperse on the way down dipshit. 

1 minute ago, NowThis said:

nah, it'll disperse on the way down dipshit. 

This isn't a fucking forest where it doesn't matter what you hit or you have a wide area to spray. 

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Fuck

This is a tragedy.. Losing such of piece of iconic history is heart breaking

Hurts my heart seeing such an amazing place being ruined in flames. 

Some of those lower levels of the scaffold look really dicey right now. 

Just now, mdmost said:

This isn't a fucking forest where it doesn't matter what you hit or you have a wide area to spray. 

still a big fucking area, monkey cunt. 

At this moment there is every fucking city official and person who can do anything mobilizing around the Duomo in Florence (and other such places).  If that one goes, I'm gonna jump from a bridge or something.

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1 minute ago, NowThis said:

still a big fucking area, monkey cunt. 

The Jersey City Fire Chief was on ABC News saying you cannot dump water on a structure like this from a plane or helicopter and not have it completely collapse. I'll take his word over your stupid fucking ass any day. 

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Sky News (the NBC video feed has switched to them) has a source claiming that the fire has gotten into one of the towers.

4 minutes ago, NowThis said:

nah, it'll disperse on the way down dipshit. 

Doesn't work that way.

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43 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

I don’t know I’m not there. I’m just surprised they haven’t been able to get it under control. How often do we see a massive building burn completely nowadays? Much less one of such importance. 

Remember when the Texas Capitol caught on fire 35 years ago? Kudos to AFD for saving the whole building from destruction.

A TV set in the Lieutenant Governors apartment caught on fire while his daughter was entertains a couple of guests.

that precipitated the renovation of the whole building and the subsequent construction of the underground annex.

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2 minutes ago, NowThis said:

still a big fucking area, monkey cunt. 

Are you actually holding the belief that the French, for whom this building is a national icon and a huge part of their cultural identity for nearly a thousand years, are holding back their efforts to fight this fire?

 

I’m shocked the scaffolding hasn’t collapsed yet. 

Flames in one of the north towers now. Shit...

Translation of a statement from a priest at ND -



As usual, it’s breaking news and Twitter, so grain of salt and all that.
2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Remember when the Texas Capitol caught on fire 35 years ago? Kudos to APD for saving the whole building from destruction.

A TV set in the Lieutenant Governors apartment caught on fire while his daughter was entertains a couple of guests.

that precipitated the renovation of the whole building and the subsequent construction of the underground annex.

Can you tell us about the Great Fire of London in 1666 too?

Just now, Bama Chick said:

Translation of a statement from a priest at ND -
 

 


As usual, it’s breaking news and Twitter, so grain of salt and all that.

 

I pray that's the case.  

Fox said there is 54 acres of timber constructing the building. 

1 minute ago, Bama Chick said:

Translation of a statement from a priest at ND -
 

 


As usual, it’s breaking news and Twitter, so grain of salt and all that.

Please be true...

The stone and wood and be replaced and the structure rebuilt. The masterpieces contained within cannot.

 

I’m gonna go ahead assume that a construction worker or etc has a very good idea of how this fire started. Of course I imagine they’ll be reluctant to come forward.

2 hours ago, Dr Fear said:

 

 

Does this mean they agreed on a new pope?  Or do I have that all backward?

3 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

It'll be 100 years before they restore all that. 

 

Are you factoring in French worker strikes?

I’ll echo everyone here saying this is awful. I was there in the summer of 2003. I’ve also been to a few other famous landmarks on par with Notre Dame such as the Vatican. Notre Dame was the only place that gave me goosebumps. There was nothing like walking into that building and hearing the choirs singing with all of the candles lit. It was amazing.

1 minute ago, Burt said:

Does this mean they agreed on a new pope?  Or do I have that all backward?

By the volume of smoke, I suspect that the next 1,000 popes have been selected.  Congratulations to Pope Galacticus XII, year 10,400.

13 minutes ago, mdmost said:

The Jersey City Fire Chief was on ABC News saying you cannot dump water on a structure like this from a plane or helicopter and not have it completely collapse. I'll take his word over your stupid fucking ass any day. 

Ask him his thoughts about football position terminology next. 

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Are you factoring in French worker strikes?

That would be my guess: Protesting wages is guess #1 with protesting Catholicism guess #2.

2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Are you factoring in French worker strikes?

Sorry, 200 years.

7 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

It'll be 100 years before they restore all that. 

 

it'll be like the Sagrada Familia. always being worked on.  

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Fire looks like it's starting to intensify again to some extent.  Also looks like the hoses are a little further away.  They're getting worried about the structure  

They're definitely shooting water into one of the towers now.  

11 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

Fox said there is 54 acres of timber constructing the building. 

13000 Trees is what I read

2 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Fire looks like it's starting to intensify again to some extent.  Also looks like the hoses are a little further away.  They're getting worried about the structure  

It’s going down, not much can be done about that now.

6 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Still not seeing any fire in either of the towers.  

CNN Showing firefighters up in the towers. Well at least moving lights they think are firefighters. 

1 minute ago, Doc Reeves said:

It’s going down, not much can be done about that now.

Yep

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