September 10, 2019
Notre-Dame Updates: What We Know About the Cathedral Five Months After the Fire
On April 15, 2019, a serious fire devastated Paris' world-famous Notre-Dame Cathedral. Just hours after the blaze broke out, some of the destruction was already clear; as the fire rapidly spread, it consumed much of the Medieval building’s lead and oak roof, a large portion of the cathedral’s wooden rib-vaulted ceiling, some stained glass windows, and, most dramatically, the building’s 750-ton spire. In the days and weeks following the fire, more news continued to trickle in.
