NotreDameCathedralFire | 'It was hell.'
Philippe Marsset, the vicar general of Notre-Dame, was among the first to enter the storied Gothic cathedral whose sculpted arches have been blackened by smoke and pews destroyed.
"It felt like I was looking at a bombing," Marsset said of the church where he was ordained a priest 31 years ago. "It was hell," he said, describing the moment when the blaze was discovered on the soaring roof shortly after evening mass ended on Monday evening.Flames and smoke are seen billowing from Notre-Dame on April 15 2019; the blaze destroyed its towering spire and parts of the roof.
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