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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by treis on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:32PM (#19684047)
I've noticed that people have been giving a lot of credit to the fire fighters. It's clear they tried their best and risked their lives to remove the artifacts that they could. But it's also clear that everything that could burn did burn:

https://images.app.goo.gl/PsAzFTwaz9rRC4Qp6

The entire roof is in ashes and there doesn't appear to be anything combustible left.

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by melkiaur on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:39PM (#19684113)
You missed the part about the trusses in the bell tower that didn't burn. If they burnt and the bells fell (13 tons for the biggest one!), then the whole building would have collapsed.

They had guys in the tower, protecting that.

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by matt4077 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:36PM (#19684093)
The bell towers did start burning, and their structure is wood to a large degree. Just the bells dropping could have destroyed all horizontal structures and threatened the towers’ stability.

They also literally grabbed and ran out with a lot of rather delicate cultural artifacts.

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by organsnyder on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:39PM (#19684114)
Given the hand they were dealt[1], I think they did a remarkable job.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/world/europe/why-notre-da...

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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by organsnyder on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:41PM (#19684133)
The organ casework looks quite combustible to me: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214621195466674&se...
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Re:The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame by JshWright on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:12PM (#19684417)
Here are some of my thoughts (from another discussion) on the efforts of the firefighters:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19673885

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