Notre-Dame cathedral enters delicate stage of repair

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Engineers must remove scaffolding that melted into a metal web during the inferno

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, France, early on April 16 2019. Picture: AFP/ZAKARIA ABDELKAFI

The scaffolding was erected for renovation work on the 13th-century cathedral before a fire on April 15 tore through Notre-Dame’s roof and dramatically toppled its spire. What remains of the metal platform that once encircled the spire now threatens the stone vaulted ceiling underneath, and with it the very integrity of the cathedral, which, for the first time in more than 200 years, could not host Christmas mass in 2019.

A second, lighter scaffolding frame is being erected on either side of the old scaffolding. This new structure will allow abseilers, dubbed squirrels by the project team, to go in and saw the melted scaffolding into manageable parts for the crane to remove piece by piece.

 

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