Notre Dame: the risk of trying to extinguish the fire with water

In the midst of the fire that consumed Notre Dame Cathedral, experts warned that firefighters' work with water could prove counterproductive and "generate an even greater disaster." great than the fire ".

So he was raised in a newspaper report The country, where it was recalled that "in 1966, the cathedral of León was saved because it avoided pouring water on the stone", before suggesting what was appropriate to to do in this case.

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"It is best to let the wood and slate of Notre Dame burn with water, because the stone absorbs moisture, increases the weight and can collapse", it has been published.

"The same thing happened in León fifty years ago: the stonemason gave the alarm, the stone was prevented from getting wet and the cathedral was saved," said Javier Rivera Blanco, deputy director of the Spanish Institute of Cultural Heritage.

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