Notre Dame Cathedral is burning

[_EAllusion]

It appears to be a major fire.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

https://Twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 7293487104

Despite the time it would take to get a tanker on site, I wonder what the impact of 10,000 gallons of water or slurry on the cathedral's structure would be and surrounding area.

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

It was depressing seeing stories of history burning before our eyes include the ramblings of an ignorant man-child on Twitter because he happens to be the President of the US and media catnip.

[_Res Ipsa]

Watching on TV. Such a loss.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Here's an incredible shot of the fire before the roof collapsed:

https://Twitter.com/ccasacub/status/111 ... 21216?s=20

A 700-year-old building gone. Ugh:

https://Twitter.com/nationalpost/status ... 31712?s=20

This kind of reminds of that museum that burned down to the ground recently. The history lost is incalculable.

- Doc

[_Chap]

Fortunately, Donald Trump has made a helpful suggestion:

realDonaldTrump
So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!

59K
7:39 PM - Apr 15, 2019

What would we do without him?

[_Jersey Girl]

https://Twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117844987293487104

Despite the time it would take to get a tanker on site, I wonder what the impact of 10,000 gallons of water or slurry on the cathedral's structure would be and surrounding area.

- Doc

I don't know if they even have fire fighting air tankers over there. Slurry bombers maybe.

This is presumably what would happen dropping tons of slurry on the structure and people.

"If you hit that with tons of water from above, that's going to collapse the entire structure and make the situation worse," said Wayne McPartland, a retired New York City Fire Department battalion chief. "If you miss, you might hit civilians in the street."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/15/trump-e ... yptr=yahoo

[_Kevin Graham]

Trump is apparently an expert at fighting Cathedral fires overseas, but when it comes to natural fires in American forests, he wants nothing to do with them.

[_Xenophon]

If only the maintenance people at Notre Dame had spent more time raking.

Seriously though, terrible to see this happen.

[_schreech]

This is heartbreaking. I’ve visited several times and Paris was one of the first places I visited outside of the US 25 years ago so it has a somewhat special place in my heart as I had never seen anything like ND. I always found that part of Paris amazing. I was in Europe last year with one of my daughters and I decided to take a detour just to visit ND. I’m glad we did as I’m guessing climbing up to the gargoyles is not going to be an option in the future. Such a bummer.