PHOTOS: Notre Dame fire

April 16, 2019 at 11:39 a.m.

Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. Massive plumes of yellow brown smoke is filling the air above Notre Dame Cathedral and ash is falling on tourists and others around the island that marks the center of Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. Massive plumes of yellow brown smoke is filling the air above Notre Dame Cathedral and ash is falling on tourists and others around the island that marks the center of Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

A catastrophic fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris' soaring Notre Dame Cathedral Monday as it was undergoing renovations Monday.

The fire destroyed much of the cathedral that had survived almost 900 years of history.

However, firefighters declared success Tuesday after a more than 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris' iconic Notre Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell towers.

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