The Paris Fire Brigade held 2 trainings last year to prepare for a possible fire at Notre-Dame

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• Gabriel Plus, a spokesman for the Paris Fire Brigade, told The New York Times on Tuesday that firefighters trained twice last year for a potential fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral.
• A fire brought down much of the 800-year-old cathedral's roof on Monday.
• Plus told the paper the trainings last year were focused on how to recover art and relics from Notre-Dame.

Paris firefighters regularly underwent training on how to respond in case Notre-Dame ever caught fire.

They had to put that training to the test Monday night, when the 800-year-old cathedral went up in flames.

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