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Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than anybody knew

By Elian Peltier, James Glanz, Mika Gröndahl, Weiyi Cai, Adam Nossiter and Liz Alderman
New York Times·
17 mins to read

A baffling alert. A race to the wrong building. Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything, a New York Times investigation has found.

The employee monitoring the smoke alarm panel at Notre

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