“It was technically impossible, undoable & most of all would have been utterly useless,” a French fire chief said in response to Trump’s firefighting advice, noting it would be “the equivalent of dropping three tons of concrete at 250 kilometers per hour'
Paris - As Notre-Dame in Paris burned, US President Donald Trump tweeted some advice to French firefighters.But doing that would have brought the ancient cathedral crashing down, French fire chiefs told AFP Tuesday.
In fact, dropping a 6,300-litre load from a Canadair water bomber would have put the lives of firefighters and anyone in the area at risk, he added. Lieutenant-Colonel Gabriel Plus of the Paris fire brigade said that"everything was against" the first firefighters who had to battle the French capital's evening rush-hour to get to the scene on Monday.
While armchair critics have suggested more could have been done to slow the fire, tough choices had to be made, said Plus.- Robot helps save nave - Plus said a robot was sent into the building after the firefighters were evacuated to hose the interior of the building to"lower the temperature of the nave".
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