https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47941794

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status.....186240/photo/1

I've never been there, but my Parents have, but I had an extensive unit in art history (Long before PC Culture)< that focused on the work, the symbology and the art of that church. Our AP Art History classes had a teacher, Mr. Buhler, who had gone there, and taken many slides of the colors flowing through the massive stained glass windows.


Apparently, the fire is being blamed on current renovation work, as fires are seem moving up the scaffolding, and engulfing the spire. A shame, really.


Here is the cathedral in better days, a Thing of beauty.
http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/

EDIT Someone on Imgur posted a thread about the history off the company doing the renovations on the Cathedral, and... well things look to be getting interesting.