“We will rebuild the cathedral and make it even more beautiful,” French President Emmanuel Macron said. “I want this to be achieved within five years. We can do it.”
PARIS—More than 1,000 people were celebrating Mass inside Notre Dame Cathedral on Monday evening, listening to a Gospel reading while more than 100 feet above their heads, concealed by the famed vaulted ceilings, a canopy of fire was spreading.
The unseen blaze triggered an alarm at around 6:20 p.m., prompting an evacuation. But it took officials at least 23 minutes, after another alarm sounded, to locate the conflagration in the cavernous church. By then, fire was raging through “the forest,” the centuries-old timber framing...
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