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Originally Posted by Deschodt
interesting read...
The fire department in Paris followed a protocol: Save the people, save the art, save the altar, save what furniture you can, then focus on the structure, in that order. They know what can be rebuilt and what can't.
This protocol has been in place since the last time the cathedral was destroyed, sacked during the French revolution.
The steeple and the beams supporting it are 160 years old, and oaks for new beams awaits at Versailles, the grown replacements for oaks cut to rebuild after the revolution.
This is The Long Now in action. It's what happens when you maintain civilization.
Paris has a priest firefighter that ran into a burning cathedral to save Jesus's crown of thorns!! So what might have looked like inaction to some was actually a careful plan being followed based on previous events - cool...
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WOW- interesting, where did you read that.