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Originally posted by RichardC:
"Wildfire."

Maybe it should've been "A wild fire" as in a fire that's gone wild. Lost in translation..

One Year Later, Cause of Notre Dame Fire Remains a Mystery

Investigation delayed by coronavirus lockdown.

Paul Joseph Watson

One year after a fire nearly destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the cause of the blaze remains a mystery.



On April 15, 2019, the 850 year old gothic building was engulfed in flames, sending its iconic spire crumbling to the ground.

Despite police initially asserting that an electrical short circuit was the probable cause of the fire, Europe Echaffaudage said that the electricity supply to the two lifts on the site “was perfectly within specifications and well maintained.”

12 months on and there is no official conclusion as to how the fire started.

Le Journal des Arts reports that the coronavirus lockdown and the fact that the remains of the original scaffolding that the fire brought down is still on site has delayed the investigation.

“Experts still haven’t been able to gain access to the area where the blaze is believed to have begun, and that area will not be accessible until the scaffolding comes down,” reports ArtNet.

As we previously highlighted, following the blaze, the French government ordered state-employed architects not to give interviews to the media about the Notre Dame fire.

As the video below documents, in the days after the fire, BuzzFeed ran a fake news hoax denying that Muslims had celebrated the fire, despite evidence of this being manifestly provable.

I posted a video from Facebook showing users with Islamic names reacting to the burning cathedral with thumbs up and smiley face emoticons.

BuzzFeed then claimed in an article, “the video in question does not show what people on Facebook were reacting to.”

This was a complete lie. The video clearly shows the Notre Dame Cathedral burning in the background.



https://summit.news/2020/04/16...e-remains-a-mystery/

Thanks for the update.

Gee, no way it was mooselimbs


How is it that France's (Europe's) government is so eager to allow its country to be destroyed?

I'm less concerned with who caused the fire than I am with the efforts to rebuild it. I've been there several times and it needs to be restored.

flashguy

Thread resurrection: Wife had an episode of Nova on tonight, covering the rebuilding efforts. I was curious about the current state of it all. There's a decent English-language summary here.

They are determined to have the work completed for 2024. My money is on them pulling it off. The Nova episode is worth the watch if you have an interest.

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Originally posted by DennisM:
Thread resurrection: Wife had an episode of Nova on tonight, covering the rebuilding efforts. I was curious about the current state of it all. There's a decent English-language summary here.

They are determined to have the work completed for 2024. My money is on them pulling it off. The Nova episode is worth the watch if you have an interest.

Summer Olympics are in Paris for 2024, so they're determined to throw all their resources into restoring the cathedral. If there's one thing Parisian's will pound their chest about, is their pride in Paris. While a majority of French are not pious church goers, I think that fire, damaging an eternal symbol of the city, touched many non-church goers.

I believe this is the program

^^^

Thanks for posting this. Just watched the NOVA episode and was impressed with the work they've done so far. It's good to see that they are apparently using French resources, experts, and workers to get this done instead of importing from other countries. We had the chance to be there about a month before the fire.

I recorded this NOVA show and finished it last night. Amazing work. I was impressed with the safety equipment on a lot of the workers. They had some serious hard hats? Helmets? Anyway they were cool.