Notre Dame is burning.

[J. J.]

The God Emperor has some advise

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117844987293487104

I'm sure the men and women fighting to save this cultural treasures are well aware if the tools available to them and are conducting the heart-rending job of balancing the damage being done by the flames, the damage that will be done by the various means to try and fight it, and the need to save as much as possible. I'm equally confident Little Donnie is incapable of understanding that. Perhaps his babysitters could get him a model cathedral and some plastic aircraft to play with as a distraction, before he says something even more unfortunate?

They think that the pressure of the water drop could have buckled the walls.  However, nearly everyone was asking the same question. 

[J. J.]

The flying buttresses have counterweights on them; some of are on the roof.   The buttresses could fail, meaning the walls could collapse.

The right tower seems to be on fire now.

[J. J.]

Appalling. I don't know what else I can say about this.

I was trying to figure out what in the United States would be remotely comparable and the closest I could come up with was if the National Cathedral, the Lincoln Memorial, and more than one of the really old Puritan->Congregationalist->UCC/UU churches in Eastern Massachusetts all went out at once. Even that might not be as scarring.

Probably something like the Statue of Liberty burning.

The equivalent in America would not even be a church. Notre Dame for the French and Parisians would be like the White House or Capitol for Americans. Its not a religion thing, its a national symbol.

Yes, but a national symbol without any functional (governmental) purpose, unlike the White House or Capitol.

Statue of Liberty is probably still the best analog. 

The American analogy would have to be St Patrick's (NY), the National Cathedral (DC), the Moron Tabernacle (UT) and Independence Hall (PA) all burnt at the same time.