Is standing after just these few hours of fire. This was, sadly, one of the iconic, crushingly sad images of the day. The spire of the church, made of oak, was under renovation, more on that later, when the fire at the base just became too much for the supporting timbers, and it went down. On the lefthand side of your screen is the current live picture and there are many things to point out about it. Number one, you see one socalled master stream from the paris City Fire Department trying its best to suppress the flames from inside the carcass of the church. And paris firefighters are going at it steadily from all angles around this building. Periodically we see a shoot of new smoke and sparks from inside the structure. And we can only imagine what that means. At this hour, 10 00 in paris, 4 00 on the east coast, the effort is nothing short of trying to save the remaining structure. That picture right there, they have an exposure fire going on in one of the stone columns. A Stone Build