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Notre-Dame fire. On 15 April 2019, just before 18:20 CEST, a structural fire broke out in the roof space of Notre-Dame de Paris, a medieval Catholic cathedral in Paris, France. By the time the fire was extinguished, the cathedral's wooden spire ( flèche) had collapsed, most of the wooden roof had been destroyed, and the cathedral's upper walls ...
At around 6.40pm local time, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said the fire was under control. Emergency services respond to the scene of the explosion Wednesday 21 June 2023 17:59 , Oliver O'Connell
The 2019 fire caused the cathedral's famous spire to collapse, leaving a gaping void in the Paris skyline. (Chesnot / Getty Images) A slender taper of latticework, its filigree etched in flame ...
PARIS, April 15 (Reuters) - A massive fire consumed Notre-Dame Cathedral on Monday, gutting and destroying the roof of the Paris landmark and stunning France and the world, but firefighters said ...
Notre-Dame de Paris has had three timber spires made of oak, known as flèches. The first was built between 1220 and 1230. It eventually became so damaged that it was removed in the late 18th century. The second was put into place by the French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1859, and destroyed in a major fire on 15 April 2019.
On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, entered and attacked a Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in Paris, France. There, Coulibaly murdered four Jewish hostages and held fifteen other hostages during a siege in which he demanded that the Kouachi brothers not ...
PARIS (AP) — Scaffolding that shrouded the top of Notre Dame cathedral following a devastating fire in April 2019 is being removed, marking a milestone in its reconstruction.. As the shell at ...
Removal of victims' bodies after the fire. L'Actualité number 187, 16 August 1903. The disastrous Paris Métro train fire occurred on the evening of 10 August 1903, on what was then Line 2 Nord of the system and is now Paris Métro Line 2. There were 84 deaths, most at Couronnes station, so it is also known as the Couronnes Disaster .