{"id":1680,"date":"2019-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:00:00","slug":"fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Devastating Fire Engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A French firefighter official says the structure of Notre-Dame Cathedral has been saved from total destruction, a view echoed by a junior French interior minister.<\/p>\n<p>Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said firefighters were optimistic they could salvage its main towers from the fast-moving&nbsp;flames.<\/p>\n<p>But the massive fire that consumed the cathedral on Monday had already destroyed the spire and the roof of the historic Paris landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Flames that began in the early evening burst rapidly through the roof of the centuries-old cathedral and engulfed the spire, which toppled, quickly followed by the entire roof.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> Notre-Dame&#39;s main structure is &quot;saved and preserved&quot; after fire, says Paris fire official <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IC8fT7s593\">pic.twitter.com\/IC8fT7s593<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AFP news agency (@AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/1117894472002490368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Photo of a French police drone from above.  The fire is much worse than it looked from the ground.<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NotreDame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NotreDame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j7sVcSfqnm\">pic.twitter.com\/j7sVcSfqnm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gerti \u00c7aku (@GertiCaku) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GertiCaku\/status\/1117886789442605057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<p>Distraught Parisians and stunned tourists gazed in disbelief as the inferno raged. Thousands of onlookers lined bridges over the River Seine and along its embankments, held at a distance by a police cordon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Witnesses said the whole island, the Ile de la Cite, was being evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything is collapsing,&#8221; a police officer near the scene said as the cathedral continued to burn.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders expressed shock and sent condolences to the French people. President Emmanuel Macron said the whole nation was distressed. &#8220;Like all our compatriots, I am sad this evening to see this part of all of us burn,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>A huge plume of smoke wafted across the city and ash fell over a large area. People watching gasped as the spire folded over onto itself and fell into the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Reuters\/AAP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image:&nbsp;Getty Marc Piasecki \/ Contributor<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#BREAKING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Devastating Fire Engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral - Smooth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Devastating Fire Engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"#BREAKING\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Smooth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/notre_dame_fire_getty_marc_piasecki_contributor-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ally Parker\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ally Parker\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/news\\\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/news\\\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ally Parker\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/483f1ae4f7414056a26354f833e28250\"},\"headline\":\"Devastating Fire Engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/news\\\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":306,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/news\\\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/notre_dame_fire_getty_marc_piasecki_contributor-2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/news\\\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cms.smooth.com.au\\\/news\\\/fire-devastates-notre-dame-cathedral\\\/\",\"name\":\"Devastating Fire Engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral - 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