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Notre Dame restoration: how to save an iconic building from fire | World news 0
- BUSINESS
- April 17, 2019
John David, the master stonemason at York Minster, remembers the night of 9 July 1984 well. At about 2am, a lightning bolt hit the cathedral’s south transept and started a fire that raged through the building, collapsing the roof and causing millions of pounds’ worth of damage. “I remember some people coming to the building
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Notre Dame fire – live updates: Wealthy benefactors pledge millions to restore shattered cathedral as blaze fully extinguished 0
- BUSINESS
- April 16, 2019
A French cultural heritage expert has said he believes France no longer has trees big enough to replace the ancient wooden beams destroyed by fire last night. Bertrand de Feydeau, the vice president of preservation group Fondation du Patrimoine, told France Info radio that the roof had been constructed with more than 800 years ago
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Questions for Paris fire brigade as Notre Dame inferno burns out of control for hours 0
- BUSINESS
- April 15, 2019
The French Interior Ministry said 400 firefighters were mobilised to help tackle the blaze that engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral on Monday. And while hundreds of comments flooded the Pompiers du Paris Twitter page in support of the brave firefighters, many questions were raised as to how the fire was dealt with. Why did the
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