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BREAKING: NOTRE DAME CHIEF ARCHITECT SAYS THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT
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I worked on a major rail road in maintenance. I have seen grinding equipment repair the rail head profile. The sparks fly off like water from a high pressure hose. Those showers of sparks do not ignite the creosoted ties unless some sparks manage to get into cracks of older ties and get to the center that may be rotted. The creosote is injected into the ties and may not always get to the center.
Even old solid oak would be hard to ignite unless hot embers or molten lead got to rotten parts of the wood. There would be fumes to set off smoke alarms but there not be flames for quite a while.
You ask, if the wood has a rotten core, why do the beams not collapse? On the railroad there is a bridge inspector. A bridge inspection of bridge timbers allow some degree timber rot in the center without sacrificing the timbers strength.
I have worked above beams in old buildings and encountered thick layers of dust. I wonder how thick the dust layer was on the church beams? The dust could contribute to the ignition of the wood.
I am speculating on the cause of the fire from personal experience if it was truly an accident. It is unfortunate that there is legitimate speculation that the fire was deliberately set.
Quoting: Idaho Bullwinkle yes very sensible...even more sensible is that the scaffolding being used during the restoration isn't 1000 year old oak trees ok?..I know they like to restore things kind of to original but they DONT NEED SAME YEAR SCAFFOLDING AND TOOLS AND SHIT!! according to that logic...maybe a cheap pin or dowel or hammer handle was made from cheap wood and easily caused the fire!! Especially the cheap recreated tools they must use to do the fulll recreated restoration!! PPPFFFTTTT!!
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