Many historic buildings like the Notre-Dame Cathedral are vulnerable to fires, especially during renovations. A fire engineer explains why.
Business Insider brought a fire expert into its studios, who explained that old buildings like the cathedral have several features that make them vulnerable to fire — especially during renovation.
You know, taking one of those things out of that is challenging. But then when you kind of line all of these up together it creates a lot of challenges for firefighters to really, you know, be able to protect these buildings.In terms of, yes, fires in historic buildings and structures, they are fairly common — not just in terms of there being a fire, but overall the extent of damage that then results once a fire does get started.
When we first see some of these buildings they look like, you know, stone masonry-type construction that is non-combustible. Once going inside you can see a lot of times the interior finishes. A lot are covered in woodwork. The floors, the pews, and churches and so forth are all wood and combustible materials.
A lot of times when you do see fires in historic structures, it is a lot during restoration period. For instance, Troitsky Cathedral in Russia, several years ago there was a fire during construction. Wangdue Phodrang Dzong in Bhutan had a fire just a few years ago as well, too. There's a lot that's going on during that time that introduce hazards. We have, you know, a lot of temporary electrical, temporary lighting in those.
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