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The 2014 King Fire was a large wildfire in El Dorado County, California, which burned 97,717 acres (39,545 hectares) primarily in the Eldorado National Forest. The wildfire started on September 13, 2014, near Pollock Pines, California , to the east of Sacramento .
Notre-Dame de Paris, the medieval Catholic cathedral in Paris, France, was reopened on 7 December 2024 following completion of the restoration work five years after the fire that destroyed the cathedral's spire and roof and caused extensive damage to its interior on 15 April 2019.
At the time of the fire, the spire was undergoing restoration [18] [21] [22] and scaffolding was being erected over the transept. [23] [24] Extensive attention had been given to the risk of fire at the cathedral.
The New Mexico Office of the Natural Resources Trustee will take proposals until Oct. 28 for $10 million in Gold King Mine spill restoration grants.
The Rim Fire was a massive wildfire that started in a remote canyon in the Stanislaus National Forest in California's Tuolumne County.The fire ignited on August 17, 2013, amid the 2013 California wildfire season, and burned 257,314 acres (402 sq mi; 104,131 ha; 1,041 km 2) in largely remote areas of the Sierra Nevada, including a large portion of Yosemite National Park.
Work on rebuilding the church started soon after the fire in 1306. [5] The fire is commemorated with an Appliqué wall hanging depicting the village and church burning (2004). The church was reconstructed in 1804-1810 and subsequently heavily restored in 1847-1850. This restoration was traditionally attributed to George Gilbert Scott. [6]
The restoration succeeded in recovering the surfaces and the marbles and structures of the altar, together with the cherubs and the statues of two angels (who survived the fire because they were temporarily in the sacristy at the time of the fire), the embossed silver tabernacle, the lamps and the pyramid candlesticks .
In his final moments, “House of the Dragon’s” King Viserys was, well, not quite himself. Enfeebled and riddled with disease, his final words were spoken in an empty, darkened room.