Notre Dame’s Bell Towers Would Have Fallen Without Swift Action, Paris Fire Officials Say

Mahita Gajanan, Time: World
Wed, 04/17/2019 - 7:56am

Firefighters took swift action after flames engulfed Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral and focused their efforts on preventing the fire from reaching its famed bell towers in order to save the entire structure, fire officials said Wednesday. “The two towers are pillars which keep the entire building up,” a Paris Fire Brigade official said during a press conference about two days after a fire spread in the cathedral.

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