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Notre Dame fire
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Site Supporter   Location: Can't say Joined: Sun Sep 7, 2014 Posts: 8134 
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I agree it's bewildering they didn't have a retro fitted fire suppression system, halon, or whatever.
Okay, maybe there was some issues with a retro-fit. Maybe there was concern that water or chemicals would damage antiquities. Okay, fine. Seems they would have a 24/7/365 team of fire brigade guys patrolling, every inch, day and night, with backpack tank fire extinguishers. And monitoring very carefully anyone using any power tools, fire, welders, grinders, etc. The place was apparently a tinderbox of irreplaceable historically significant monuments worth untold billions of dollars, probably. WTF they didn't take more proactive fire suppression steps is absolutely mind boggling. _________________ I defend the 2A. US Army Combat Veteran and Paratrooper: OIF Veteran. BSM and MSM recipient. NRA Lifetime. Entertainment purposes only. I'm a lawyer, but have not offered you legal advice. |
| Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:27 pm |
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Location: Wyoming Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2012 Posts: 981
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mislabeled wrote: Complacency is a big influencer. Hey, if it's been fine for 850+ years then it will probably be fine tomorrow. Except tomorrow came and there was a fire and now it's not fine anymore. Whatever agency manages that church had been begging for money for renovations for years but they couldn't get enough support from either the government or the public to make the funds available. Every other iconic church in France is probably getting numbers together for renovation projects right now. We'll see if any of them get approval. Every other church, landmark, castle, ect throughout Europe is probably gathering numbers (or more pushing those numbers harder to "investors") |
| Thu Apr 18, 2019 6:02 am |
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Site Supporter  Location: Marysville Joined: Tue Jul 31, 2012 Posts: 1261
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_________________ If it has Tits, An Engine, or a Point of Ignition, I'll probably be willing to have a look. |
| Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:37 am |
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In Memoriam  Location: Tacoma Wa Joined: Tue Oct 8, 2013 Posts: 16607 Real Name: George Bailey
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Interesting.........
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/us/st-pa ... index.html Quote: A man will be charged with attempted arson after he brought gas and lighters to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and https://www.apnews.com/ae918e45ffcb45399afb87376cf15c6a Quote: Police: NYC cathedral suspect had booked a flight to Italy _________________ "Remove one freedom per generation and soon you will have no freedom and no one would have noticed."......Carl Marx "Let us Cross the river and sit in the shade of the trees" .....Stonewall Jackson T. Jefferson "....the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure" |
| Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:14 am |
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 Site Supporter  Location: Nampa, Idaho Joined: Thu Mar 17, 2011 Posts: 19463 Real Name: Rick
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WaJim wrote: Interesting......... https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/us/st-pa ... index.html Quote: A man will be charged with attempted arson after he brought gas and lighters to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York and https://www.apnews.com/ae918e45ffcb45399afb87376cf15c6a Quote: Police: NYC cathedral suspect had booked a flight to Italy  _________________ ‘What’s the point of being a citizen if an illegal gets all the benefits’ |
| Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:21 am |
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Site Supporter  Location: Nova Laboratories Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2011 Posts: 18454 Real Name: Johnny 5
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French police still don't know how it started...But Quasimodo has a hunch...
_________________ NO DISASSEMBLE! Thomas Paine wrote: "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." |
| Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:14 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Lynnwood and at large Joined: Wed May 1, 2013 Posts: 21268 Real Name: Vick Lagina
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I heard an allusion to electrical fire/short today
_________________ “Finding ‘common ground’ with the thinking of evil men is a fool’s errand” ~ Herschel Smith "The “A return to First Principles in a Republic is sometimes caused by simple virtues of a single man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Before all else, be armed!” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli Láodòng zhèng zhūwèi zìyóu FJB |
| Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:28 pm |
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 Location: Puyallup Joined: Sun Jan 20, 2013 Posts: 219 Real Name: dave
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i was in Istanbul when the fire happened. some of "them" thought it was funny, the infidels losing a holy place.
just got back from Paris a few hours ago. dammed "yellow vesters" were protesting spending public money to restore it. :( _________________ NRA Benefactor Life Member WAC Life Member US Constitution: VOID where prohibited by law. |
| Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:13 pm |
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