WHAT WE MIGHT HAVE LOST …

Fire at the  Santa Marina de Balboa Church, León (Spain) By Cristina Escudero, Unit for Risk Management and Emergencies in Cultural Heritage (UGRECYL) and PROCULTHER Focal Point (Spain) (1) The accident It was 3 minutes past 8 in the morning of Tuesday 4 May when we received a call from Olivier Bao, Chief of the

Reflections on the Notre-Dame de Paris fire: the Cultural Heritage Protection Plan put to the test

By Romain Kimmel, Foreign Policy Officer at French Ministry of Interior – DGSCGC and PROCULTHER Focal Point (1)Special thanks to the Brigade des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris for providing the technical information and photos of this intervention In 2017, France had more than 45,000 protected historical monuments. In the event of disaster, civil security forces are