A fire that broke out on the spire of Rouen Cathedral is reported to have been bought under control by firefighters who responded to the emergency in the northern French city.
The fire started on the morning of 11 July and sent a thick plume of smoke into the sky. With frightening echoes of the giant fire in 2019 that engulfed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, onlookers looked on aghast as about 40 fire engines rushed to the scene, reportsReuters.
A cordon was established around the 12th-century cathedral, as about 70 firefighters sought to save one of France’s finest examples of medieval Gothic architecture, which became even more lauded after a series of paintings by the French impressionist Claude Monet.
