notre dame cathedral fire

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:46:11 +0000

Fueled by a lattice of centuries-old timbers, the fire moved hungrily across Notre Dame’s rooftop toward the cathedral’s iconic spire. They had 66 minutes.The first alarm sounded at 6:20 p.m., silencing the priest and a few hundred worshippers and tourists inside.“Everyone was immobilized by shock for maybe a minute,” said Johann Vexo, who was in the organ loft for Monday Mass. Shock, but no panic. The rear doors opened and within a few minutes, the cathedral was empty, he told Ouest-France newspaper.

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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:10:23 +0000

The Embassy of France in Manila expressed gratitude over the Philippines’ “heartfelt messages” following the fire that razed parts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:54:44 +0000

Firefighters declared success Tuesday morning in their more than 12-hour battle to extinguish the flames that engulfed Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral. What remained was a blackened shell of the monument immortalized in Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” a building that had survived almost 900 years of tumultuous French history.

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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:45:34 +0000

Firefighters battled a massive blaze Monday at the French capital’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral that sent ash pouring onto tourists and flames shooting out of the world-famous 12th century monument.

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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:45:34 +0000

Firefighters battled a massive blaze Monday at the French capital’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral that sent ash pouring onto tourists and flames shooting out of the world-famous 12th century monument.

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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:45:34 +0000

A fire hit the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday afternoon, April 15 (early Tuesday in the Philippines), possibly related to renovation works being carried out at the site, according to an Agence France-Presse report.

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