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The cathedral of notre dame still stands but without its elegant spire. Bun burned away. Suddenly you feel your mother has been hurt by the fire. While an investigation is going, officials are calling the blaze unintentional. They suspect it started around 6 30 monday night amongst scaffolding at the base of the spire. The flames spread quickly across the medieval roof, made of so many timbers it was nicknamed the forest. The heat kept building and rising until oh, my gosh the steeple just fell inside the church. The spire came crashing down into the churchs interior, fanning the flames. For hours that felt like days, it seemed like notre dame, our lady of paris, might be lost. French officials telling the nation to brace that she may not be saved. And that the gothic masterpiece visited by 13 million every year and full of priceless art and sacred relics would be reduced to ash. Around 400 firefighters contained the flames, enough to go inside and saw this. The interior badly damaged,

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