Notre Dame On Fire

[-Talbot-]

https://twitter.com/Solwii/status/1117838050342645760

Seems to have got quite a hold.

[ummmm]

Such a shame and those who tried to add humour...you're not funny!!

[tiggerblue10]

Absolutely awful and devastating for this beautiful 13th century Gothic architectural building :o(

[Peter Pedant]

oo-la-la ummmm ! well - we are where we are.....

even the crowd ( outside the church ) are murmuring - where are the bliddy hoses ?

[spathiphyllum]

oh no, how awful

[-Talbot-]

well this is PP in full swing !

[spathiphyllum]

19:37

I agree notre place for jokes.

[Barmaid]

How awful. It's really saddened me. Seeing the spire collapse seemed so final.

[Baldric]

What do I expect?
No more than I'm getting to be honest, a half-wit is a half-wit.

[Peter Pedant]

There is an awful lot of hand-wringing and pious sentiment typical of AB and sniffy value-signalling

wouldnt it have been better to plan fire precautions during work ? instead of the sighing and wondering where the water is , during ?

"l'incendie est potentiellement lie aux travaux de renovation de l'edifice (pompiers)" - so the French know that fires are linked to renovation - so it cd be planned for as it has been identified

[spathiphyllum]

I agree a delicate building should have extreme precautions when doing work

[jim360]

Some other time, PP. It's not welcome now.

[sanmac]

It's easy to say in retrospect but why weren't emergency procedures planned prior to the repairs taking place?

[ChillDoubt]

the pompiers ( french for firemen - just to vex the mono-glots)
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Why do you always feel the need to pervade each and every thread with such idiocy?
And don’t refer to me as ‘Sunny’, I’m nearly 54 you clown.

[retrocop]

PP
Sappers Pompiers is the correct designation for these emergency workers who have, also ,a paramedic role. Course you knew that didn't you?

[Peter Pedant]

// I am suprised he hasn't already compared the pyrotechnic characteristics of L'eglise Francais with the Church of Oradour-Sur-Glane.//

insults - libel - things I never read in the Bible !
l'eglise francaise is presumably Notre Dame - Oradour for AB thickos is where the Germans locked villagers inside a church, machine-gunned them and set it on fire. (listeners to German prisoners picked up accounts of this including - "we had got the wrong village and had to do the same thing elsewhere three weeks later!" eek). erm there may be a parallel .....

//Baldric: a half-wit is a half-wit.//
nay Balders you are doing yourself down ! ter-daah !

[sanmac]

Just watched a video on BBC, and I saw only one hose being used.

[douglas9401]

sapeurs-pompiers

It's why Peter informs, to avoid small errors like that.

Bonsoir.

[Peter Pedant]

// Un pompier est une personne entraînée à combattre le feu et à offrir une gamme de secours de diverses natures (inondations, accidents, sauvetages, secours et assistance à personnes, etc.).

Sapeur-pompier et plus rarement marin-pompier sont des métiers de la sécurité civile.//

from ( de ) : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompier

appear to be different. but if you say they are identical Retro, I am sure you are right, you are of course a policeman

[Peter Pedant]

Blimey - they say it will be razed .....