Video: Fire Breaks Out At Medieval Cathedral In France's Rouen City Amid Restoration

❗️🔥🇫🇷 - #BREAKING: Rouen: Spire of famous French cathedral on fire.

The spire of France's famous Rouen cathedral is on fire, according to the city's mayor.

The cathedral is widely known as it was painted multiple times by French impressionist painter Claude Monet in the 19th… pic.twitter.com/Z1ka4Sy2Dj

— 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) July 11, 2024

Witnesses speaking on BFM television described smoke emanating from the spire and recalled a devastating fire in 2019 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris that toppled its spire and collapsed its roof.

Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol posted on the social media platform X that "the beginning of a fire is underway on the spire of the cathedral of Rouen. The origin is unknown at this stage. All public resources are mobilized."

Début d'incendie en cours sur la flèche de la cathédrale de @Rouen. Origine inconnue à ce stade. Tous les moyens publics sont mobilisés. Merci de faciliter leur intervention. pic.twitter.com/Lnu1vMrw5p

— Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (@NicolasMayerNMR) July 11, 2024

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The regional administration posted online that the cathedral was evacuated and a security perimeter was in place.

The cathedral in Paris, a major landmark, is scheduled to reopen in December after an unprecedented reconstruction effort. The cause of that fire was deemed an accident.