Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol shared an image on X that showed the cathedral shortly after the fire broke out. "Start of fire in progress on the spire of the cathedral of @Rouen.

Firefighters extinguished a blaze at Rouen's historic cathedral in northern France on Thursday to the relief of locals who had feared a repeat of the catastrophic Notre-Dame fire in Paris when ...

Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the Mayor of Rouen, which is in France's northern Normandy region, said no one was injured. A security perimeter was set up around the large cathedral, which was built ...

A crowd gathers outside the Rouen cathedral in Normandy during the funeral mass for Father Hamel on Aug. 2, 2016. French authorities say a fire broke out on the spire of the medieval cathedral on ...

This blaze comes five years after a massive fire broke out in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, devastating large parts of the 850-year-old church. CNN’s Julen Chavin contributed to this report.

Witnesses speaking on BFM television described smoke emanating from the spire, and recalled a devastating fire in 2019 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris that toppled its spire and collapsed its roof.

* The cathedral's 12th century St. Roman tower houses its bourdon, or largest bell, named Joan of Arc as well as the 64-bell carillon. The cathedral's bells can be heard from 5 km (three miles) away.

Rouen cathedral evacuated after spire catches fire - The blaze at the 12th-century cathedral is reminiscent of the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris in 2019 ...

Rouen’s 12th-century cathedral — formally the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen — is considered a Gothic masterpiece and widely beloved not least because of a series of paintings by ...

Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, Sunlight (1894). Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Photo: VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images.

Posted: Jul 11, 2024 / 06:43 AM PDT Updated: Jul 11, 2024 / 06:43 AM PDT FILE – The crowd gather outside the Rouen cathedral, Normandy, during the funeral mass for Father Hamel, Tuesday, Aug.2 ...