TESTIMONIAL EUROPE 1
At the age of 27, Corporal Myriam Sudzinsky was one of the first firefighters to arrive in Notre-Dame on Monday night, during the fire that ravaged the cathedral. For 9 hours, she fought the flames with 400 other firefighters. During her two years of career, she had already followed training at the cathedral, but how to be totally prepared for the unthinkable? On Europe 1, Thursday morning, she recounts this extraordinary intervention.
"When I saw the flames that were several meters high, I wondered what we were going to do, and to get to the top of the cathedral, we had to go down very narrow black spiral stairs with our pipes, the ARI. We have the task of establishing the spear, and stopping the spread, but it was spreading at a blazing speed, we had to go back every time. we even had to retreat to the stairs.
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When we saw the speed of propagation, we felt ridiculous with our two little spears
Opening the door, we saw the roof of Notre-Dame totally ignited. We tried to water to the maximum, but there was nothing to do, everything collapsed. When we saw the speed of propagation, we felt ridiculous with our two little spears. At one point, we heard a huge noise. Apparently it was the arrow that was falling down not far from us. We were ordered to evacuate urgently.
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When we left the scene of the intervention around 4 am, and when we saw people applauding us, it made us weird, because we did not realize. I am only beginning to realize that I fired at Notre Dame. "