{"id":300279,"date":"2019-07-17T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=300279"},"modified":"2019-07-17T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:07:00","slug":"just-great-journalism-the-untold-story-of-how-firefighters-saved-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/07\/just-great-journalism-the-untold-story-of-how-firefighters-saved-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Journalism: The Untold Story of How Firefighters Saved Notre-Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This story in The New York Times<\/a> <\/strong>utilizes some superb reporting and great multimedia interactive material to help tell the story of what happened the night Notre-Dame burned \u2014and recounts, in dramatic detail, how close the world came to losing this icon forever:<\/p>\n

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What happened over four hours that night changed Paris. The cathedral \u2014 a soaring medieval structure that has captured the hearts of believer and nonbeliever alike for 850 years \u2014 was ravaged.<\/p>\n

Today three jagged openings mar Notre-Dame\u2019s vaulted ceiling, the stone of the structure is precarious, and the roof is gone. Some 150 workers remain busy recovering the stones, shoring up the building, and\u00a0protecting it from the elements with two giant tarps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some of what went wrong that night has been reported in the French news media, including\u00a0Le Monde<\/a>\u00a0and Le Canard Encha\u00een\u00e9. Now, The New York Times conducted scores of interviews and reviewed hundreds of documents to reconstruct the missteps \u2014 and the battle that saved Notre-Dame in the first four critical hours after the blaze began.<\/p>\n

What became clear is just how close the cathedral came to collapsing.<\/p>\n

The first hour was defined by that initial, critical mistake: the failure to identify the location of the fire, and by the delay that followed.<\/p>\n

The second hour was dominated by a sense of helplessness. As people raced to the building,\u00a0waves of shock and mourning<\/a>\u00a0for one of the world\u2019s most beloved and recognizable buildings, amplified over social media, rippled in real time across the globe.<\/p>\n

That Notre-Dame still stands is due solely to the enormous risks taken by firefighters in those third and fourth hours.<\/p>\n

Disadvantaged by their late start, firefighters would rush up the 300 steps to the burning attic and then be forced to retreat. Finally, a small group of firefighters was sent directly into the flames, as a last, desperate effort to save the cathedral.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a feeling that there was something bigger than life at stake,\u201d said Ariel Weil, the mayor of the city\u2019s Fourth Arrondissement, home to the cathedral, \u201cand that Notre-Dame could be lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read it all.<\/a> <\/strong>Kudos to the Times reporting team that put this together.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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