https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj9xba/thousands-of-bees-living-in-notre-dames-roof-survived-the-fire > Notre Dame caught fire on Monday, incinerating the iconic cathedral’s wooden roof and causing untold damage. > But a colony of roughly 180,000 honey bees that lives above Notre Dame’s sacristy survived the flames, even as smoke consumed their hives.