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Notre Dame Cathedral is on fire
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ZRX1200 Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 1:53 PM EST
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Wanna bet the yellow vests get blamed?
opelmanta1900 Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 2:08 PM EST
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My buddy is there... Just sent me a before and after of the tower collapsing...
Speyside Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 2:36 PM EST
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Tragic.
victor809 Offline
#4 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 2:47 PM EST
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We should loan France our flying water tankers to help them put it out.
dstieger Offline
#5 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 2:47 PM EST
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Neglect? Arson? Act of god?
opelmanta1900 Offline
#6 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 3:04 PM EST
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My buddy said "we were looking for Cuban cigars, walked out of the shop, and there was a ton of some coming from the cathedral a block away"... Sounds to me like it was started by a careless cigar smoker with a now-guilty conscience...
tailgater Offline
#7 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 3:33 PM EST
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They coulda prevented it if they just raked things up a bit more.
delta1 Offline
#8 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 3:41 PM EST
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almost a thousand years old...lasted through all sorts of disasters...but it couldn't resist climate change...
ZRX1200 Offline
#9 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 3:44 PM EST
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They said it started shortly after it was closed, and an air tanker would have destroyed it. Maybe a bucket drop from a helo would have done some good but that’s not something they use.
ZRX1200 Offline
#10 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 3:45 PM EST
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YouTube’s new “algorithm” linked it to 911 on accident....

(CNN report if you’re curious)
victor809 Offline
#11 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 3:52 PM EST
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Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!
ZRX1200 Offline
#12 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 3:54 PM EST
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So you want to destroy it further?

Or is this some reference to the 747 supertanker that the federal government doesn’t want to use here?
ZRX1200 Offline
#13 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 4:05 PM EST
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https://www.france24.com/en/20190412-france-jails-jihadist-woman-accused-over-foiled-terror-attack

*shrug*

Stuff is being cleared off the net and 4chan is on the fritz
ZRX1200 Offline
#14 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 4:17 PM EST
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https://www.newsweek.com/spate-attacks-catholic-churches-france-sees-altars-desecrated-christ-statue-1370800
victor809 Offline
#15 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 4:18 PM EST
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Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!
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#16 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 4:26 PM EST
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tailgater wrote:
They coulda prevented it if they just raked things up a bit more.



wrong thread, noob!
ZRX1200 Offline
#17 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 4:31 PM EST
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I think your computer is on the fritz, was it from all the scenes you got deleted in? Maybe they hacked your computer dude.
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#18 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 4:34 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
almost a thousand years old...lasted through all sorts of disasters...but it couldn't resist climate change...


climate change fires burn much much hotter
ZRX1200 Offline
#19 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 4:47 PM EST
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It’s ok, Vic is on his way with his air tanker. Been outta work since Côckbôys fired him
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#20 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2019, 4:50 PM EST
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I heard we should act quickly.

Because firefighters usually act slowly unless otherwise instructed to act quickly.

And I heard that we should use air tankers.
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#21 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 7:05 AM EST
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Have you ever watched European construction workers? Just as lackidaisical about working on historic treasures as anything else. It doesn't surprise me. It happens here all the time with new wood construction but is easy to torch 2x4s. it would take a lot of kindling to get those old beams lit.
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#22 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 10:20 AM EST
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Did Quasimodo get out ok?
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#23 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 10:44 AM EST
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Thunder.Gerbil wrote:
Did Quasimodo get out ok?


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#24 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 11:25 AM EST
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I hope it's merely a coincidence...
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#25 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 11:46 AM EST
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ONLY THE "F.R.E.N.C.H."....

COULD
start a fire...

IN a building made almost entirely of:

STONE
METAL
AND
GLASS....

W.T.F.?

THE ONLY THINGS FLAMMABLE
WERE:

*CHURCH PEWS
*KNEELING PLANKS
*AND MILLION DOLLAR PAINTINGS/ ARTWORK HANGING
EVERYWHERE...
???MAYBE??? A FEW SUPPORT BEAMS (as somebody else mentioned??? but they were precautionary braces...
NOT LOAD BEARING SUPPORTS...

THE FRIGGIN THING WAS BUILT BY THE ORIGINAL
M.A.S.O.N.S. FOR GOD'S SAKES...

MASONS USE STONE , MARBLE, BRICK....

NOT
W.O.O.D.

W.T.F.?
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#26 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 11:52 AM EST
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That was my first thought. But apparently there are a lot of huge, very old, wooden support beams.

If only the flying water tankers had gotten there sooner.
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#27 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 1:16 PM EST
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I heard they dumped their loads in South Bend, Indiana.......d'oh!
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#28 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 1:22 PM EST
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RTFWP
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#29 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 1:23 PM EST
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Bingo twice a week for the summer and the money will be there to rebuild.
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#30 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 6:16 PM EST
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OK, Victor, we get it. Trump said a stupid thing. Boy, did you show us. Because he suggested using air tankers, I will now vote for the Neo-Marxist totalitarian running on the Democrat ticket in 2020. Enslavement to government is so much more desirable then voting for a man who suggested using air tankers. You won, dude, you won.

David
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#31 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 6:22 PM EST
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Maybe they should take the billions needed to restore this extravagance and give it to charity or victims of pedophilia.

We should also learn from this and have airborne tankers available.
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#32 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 6:22 PM EST
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In all 57 states.
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#33 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 6:40 PM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
Maybe they should take the billions needed to restore this extravagance and give it to charity or victims of pedophilia.

We should also learn from this and have airborne tankers available.

so were you or were you not in gay Pareee recently?
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#34 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 8:14 PM EST
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I mean... I think the real key is to move quickly...
If only someone in a fire department had thought of that before they had to consult Twitter.
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#35 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 9:40 PM EST
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Consulting twitter is so last year.

Everyone knows that we now use news agglomerates.

Easier to hide the tawdry nature of our google searches.
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#36 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 9:44 PM EST
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you don't even know what that...sorry, wrong thread.
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#37 Posted: Tue, Apr 16 2019, 9:54 PM EST
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I'm not sure you even used that righ.....Frank's right, wrong thread.
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#38 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 7:48 AM EST
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All of this ignores the fact that if the French had only consulted dear leader earlier they could have saved the hunch backs home. Who knows maybe mexico would have bought the flying firetrucks. The dude is just absurd.
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#39 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 7:55 AM EST
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Oh yea I almost forgot

the roof the roof the roof is on fire

I was in awe at the Vatican museum. So beautiful yet an embarrassment of riches.... and yet non-profit
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#40 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 9:41 AM EST
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There is a fire retardant liquid that they spray on thatched chiki huts in Florida so they don't catch on fire. Could have been an option for dry and rotted smaller wood members and "gingerbread".

In an old building you only need to keep the small pieces of wood and fabric from catching on fire. The old beams are very hard to get started to burn without a lot of kindling. Old warehouses were built with heavy timbers so that when they caught fire, the surface layer of wood would burn until an insulating layer of char is formed. Didn't always work but there are many structurally sound warehouses with charred beams. Of course there is the possibility of flammable liquids or explosions which could light almost any type of wood.

My prediction: the cause will be identified and determined that it could have been avoided by keeping the construction site free of flammable materials/debris near vulnerable parts of the building and by isolating torches, welding equipment and other sources of heat. It has been said the site was inspected twice daily for fire hazards........what is still to be determined is did anyone notice the pending problem and elect to do anything other than make the rounds and punch the time clock. Anything that is inspected so often is also likely to have inspectors that think they know the site and stop looking closely or questioning things.
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#41 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 10:04 AM EST
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All the lead may prove to be an interesting issue.
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#42 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 10:13 AM EST
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https://youtu.be/MsPuzR8OD30?t=1m23s
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#43 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 11:45 AM EST
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No cause yet, but Quasimodo has a hunch.
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#44 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 11:57 AM EST
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^now that's funny
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#45 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 12:21 PM EST
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at least they saved the golden dome...
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#46 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 6:06 PM EST
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Gene363 wrote:
No cause yet, but Quasimodo has a hunch.


Was it a wild hunch? or an informed hunch?
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#47 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 6:39 PM EST
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tamapatom wrote:
Was it a wild hunch? or an informed hunch?

I believe it was more of a deformed hunch...Anxious
tamapatom Offline
#48 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 8:31 PM EST
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Must be all that lead.
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#49 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 8:57 PM EST
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I ate lead chips as a child and I’m fine.
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#50 Posted: Wed, Apr 17 2019, 9:08 PM EST
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Explains a lot.
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