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		etrevino on April 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in... The BBC said they were pulling water directly from the river, fyi.

JshWright on April 15, 2019 [–]

Yeah, I've seen at least two draft lines running. But at best that's going to be 3-4k GPM. Enough for a couple of those big water streams. You'd need >10x that to fight a fire like this head on (which they clearly didn't have, since they immediately went to salvage and exposure protection measures)

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