The Notre Dame Cathedral...

[Tickford.]

Interested in peoples opinions on this. First off, I'm posting this as I'm interested in peoples view on the cathedral fire, please try not to go off topic. An open minded adult discussion would be great.

The cathedral fire was said to be as a result of a electrical short. That diagnosis was made, and publicised, pretty much soon after the fire brigades turned up. I was curious to know how they'd come to this conclusion so soon, even as the fire was still burning out of control. As a qualified electrician, and a current volunteer fireman, I was a little perplexed to this quick diagnosis as being the cause of the fire.

So I went digging, and doing a bit of researching last week I came across a lot of information out there. As most people don't like reading, I thought a video would be better. NOTE: both YouTube video links below are best viewed on fullscreen and in HD, as it's a bit grainy. Or better yet, link to a big screen TV if possible.

Notre Dame Cathedral has a webcam recording it's build from not too far away. This webcam is live 24/7. It records 60 seconds of footage every hour, at 5 minutes past the hour. See below link.
https://www.viewsurf.com/univers/vil...ale-notre-dame

On the day of the fire, this webcam captured a moving figure on the roof of the cathedral just before the fire started. It is very hard to see in the footage (which shows the actual footage captured on the day of the fire. There's five 60sec captures from 17:05, 18:05, 19:05, 20:05 and 21:05), but if you concentrate on the indicated area in the photo below, you can see a moving figure and a couple of flashes.

Photo:


Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tid8lTWv_KI

There's seems to be someone walking around on the roof, in exactly where the fire started a hour and an bit later. At 23 seconds, there seems to be a flash of some sort.