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'We have 30 minutes': the night Notre-Dame was saved

The steeple and spire collapses as smoke and flames engulf the Notre-Dame cathedral. [AFP]

Monday, April 15, 2019. When an alarm goes off in the early evening at Notre-Dame cathedral in central Paris, there is no immediate sense of panic.

Security exercises and false alerts are frequent at the historic place of worship, which has stood on the Ile de la Cite in central Paris for over 850 years.

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