Drone footage shows Notre Dame Cathedral fire damage - video

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

Aerial footage reveals the extent of the damage to Notre Dame Cathedral after a fire tore through the 850-year-old structure. Up to 500 firefighters had battled to contain the flames on Monday evening. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has vowed to rebuild the Paris landmark within five years. The fire started at the base of the 93-metre spire and spread through the cathedral’s ribbed roof, made up of hundreds of oak beams, some dating back to the 13th century

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/apr/17/drone-footage-shows-notre-dame-cathedral-fire-damage-video

[ginnyinWI]

1. They say it will take five years to rebuild.

So much debris to take away. What a mess.

[Brother Buzz]

8. One-hundred tons of puddled lead, charcoal, and a surprising small amount of masonry....

that dropped from the ceiling. It would have been a Hell of a lot bigger mess to remove if the entire vaulted ceiling had dropped, like I had initially envisioned.

[Canoe52]

2. Great footage, the amount of scaffolding up there is amazing,

and going to be very dangerous and difficult to remove with it being damaged.

[mn9driver]

3. The stone of the vault and most of the upper parapet has changed color

The surfaces that faced the fire now have a distinctive greenish tint. Limestone does this when it gets to around 600C. At 800C, it fails. If the damage penetrates very far into the stone it will need to be replaced.

I can’t imagine how this could be done in 5 years. Even 10 or 15 years seems pretty optimistic. The good news is that master stone masons from all over the world will want to work on this project, but it’s going to take a long time.

When the South transept of York Minster burned in 1984, the building didn’t reopen until 1997 and the damage there was not as extensive as what happened to Notre Dame.

[Historic NY]

4. My guess is they will go for the best limestone....

and analysis will tell them. Present day Croatia still has some of the best limestone quarries in all of Europe. When the Canadians built Vimy, they brought it all in from there, the old Romans mines.

[progree]

5. Amazing interactive view over Notre Dame - Gigarama You can even zoom in too

https://gigarama.ru/notredame/

(Credit: Pluvious https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181207419 )

You can rotate the view and zoom in our out.

[burrowowl]

6. K&R

[progree]

7. Notre Dame: World landmarks display colours of French flag in solidarity after Paris fire

Pictures!

https://news.yahoo.com/notre-dame-world-landmarks-display-073545317.html

Here's one - a side by side of World Trade Center and Empire State Building


The lookout tower on Petrin hill in the Czech capital Prague and the Stari Most bridge in the Bosnia and Herzegovina city of Mostar were also brightened with the colours of the French flag.

An icon of Ottoman architecture, the bridge in Mostar was completely rebuilt in 2004 after it was destroyed by artillery fire in 1993.

Link to tweet

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