In May 1982, Fall River lost its own iconic church, Notre Dame de Lourdes. "They said hurry, there's a fire in the attic!" said Masse, who was church sexton there for 33 years. Carpenters ...

On May 11, 1982, Jennings was a lieutenant in the Fall River Fire Department, fighting the blaze that destroyed the Flint’s Notre Dame de Lourdes Church and most of a block of tenements.

FALL RIVER — For Fall River resident Roland Masse, the images of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burning Monday brought immediate flashbacks to an eerily similar church inferno he escaped decades ago.

PARIS - Church bells will ring out in unison across the U.S. Saturday to celebrate Notre Dame’s reopening five ... Paris-born cellist Yo-Yo Ma; Benin-born singer Angelique Kidjo; Lebanese ...