PARIS: A blaze over Sunday to Monday ravaged the ceiling and bell building of a town house in one of Paris’s regions, police and firefighters said.
No one was hurt in the flames, and its origin was unknown at the time.
According to the fire brigade, it took 150 firefighters three hours to handle the incident in the city’s southeast 12th district.
The fire hit the 36-metre ( 118-foot ) bell tower topping the nineteenth-century building, fire brigade spokesman Matthieu Lamouliatte said.
Paris authorities key Laurent Nunez said:” Uncertainty remains over the balance of the tower, which is still in risk of collapsing”.
” It will likely take several days to examine all of this”, he told the RTL television journalist.
The origins of the fireplace is not known, but “at this period, I have no reason to believe that it is criminal”, Nunez said.
According to Lamouliatte,” the four pillars of the chapel were never affected,” adding that Paris architects may check if there was still a chance the tower might collapse.
The “violent flames” at the town hall, which” set its bell tower fire and damaged the roof,” was Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo’s Instagram post.
France was shocked in April 2019 when a hearth seriously damaged one of its greatest monuments, the Notre Dame cathedral, and toppled its nineteenth-century tower.
After a half-decade recovery, the church reopened at the end of next year, complete with a new spire.
