{"id":187136,"date":"2019-04-21T09:52:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T09:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187136"},"modified":"2019-04-27T05:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T05:24:52","slug":"former-chief-architect-engineer-of-notre-dame-cathedral-says-fire-incomprehensable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187136","title":{"rendered":"Former chief architect\/engineer of Notre Dame Cathedral says fire “Incomprehensable”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief architect of Notre Dame: ‘We installed new detection system in 2010, and completely rewired the cathedral, so the fire wasn’t caused by electrical short-circuit’<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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Sign of the Times \u2013 April 18, 2019<\/h2>\n

French media reports citing an interview with the former French Inspector-General for Historic Monuments\u00a0Benjamin Mouton<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, who oversaw the installation of state-of-the-art fire prevention systems in the Notre Dame Cathedral in 2010, and who was responsible for the building from 2000 to 2013, cast doubt on\u00a0today’s leak to the Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that the fire was likely caused by an electrical short-circuit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Benjamin Mouton was interviewed live on TV on Monday evening as the fire continued to burn the 850-year-old symbol of French culture and history. Here’s what he had to say:<\/span><\/p>\n

“I don’t understand this at all. The fire’s spread is extremely curious. With really old oak like that, it’s super-hard, so\u00a0you’d need a lot of smaller wood to first get the fire hot enough<\/strong>\u00a0for the oak beams to burn.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2010\u00a0we replaced all the electrical wiring, so there’s no way this was sparked by a short-circuit<\/strong>. We put new wiring in place according to modern standards. And we went even further; we installed\u00a0state-of-the-art fire protection and detection systems<\/strong>\u00a0in the cathedral.<\/span><\/p>\n

At all times, there are always two men on standby in the Cathedral, day and night, to go investigate anything the moment an alarm goes off, then if necessary to call the fire emergency services.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am really stunned<\/strong>\u00a0that this [the fire] has happened. It’s incomprehensible.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s not all. Mouton told French construction magazine BatiActu\u00a0the following<\/strong><\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

“In 40 years of experience, I have never heard of a fire like this.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would take a really combustible load at the start of such a fire<\/strong>\u00a0for it to rapidly develop into the disaster we saw. Also,\u00a0oak is a particularly fire-resistant wood<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fire detection\/protection system installed in the cathedral was of the highest level<\/strong>. It was a very expensive undertaking, but it enabled us to quickly ascertain whether a fire had started somewhere. Additionally, we had many old wooden doors replaced by fire-doors.<\/span><\/p>\n

We also drastically reduced the number of electrical appliances throughout the building,\u00a0and completely forbid them in the attic<\/strong>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘We installed new detection system in 2010, and completely rewired the cathedral, so the fire wasn’t caused by electrical short-circuit’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-french-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187142,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187136\/revisions\/187142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}