Notre Dame's rector said there's a '50% chance' the cathedral is just too damaged to be saved
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The scaffolding installed before the fire may be too fragile to support what remains of it, and could send the remaining pieces into ruin, he said.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Monsignor Patrick Chauvet said restoration work isn't likely to begin until 2021 — and described his "heartache" at not being able to celebrate Christmas services inside Notre Dame this year, for the first time since the French Revolution.
"Today we can say that there is maybe a 50% chance that it will be saved. There is also 50% chance of scaffolding falling onto the three vaults, so as you can see the building is still very fragile," he said.The 12th-century cathedral was under renovation at the time of the accidental April fire, which destroyed its roof and collapsed its spire. One of the toughest parts of the cleanup effort is cutting down the 50,000 tubes of old scaffolding that crisscrossed the back of the edifice.
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