'Hero' priest helped firefighters rescue sacred treasures from burning Notre Dame

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'Hero' priest helped firefighters rescue sacred treasures from burning Notre Dame
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Emergency services form human chain to save artworks and relics

This photograph taken on November 9, 2019, shows the choir screen at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris. - Crowds of stunned Parisians and tourists -- some crying, others offering prayers -- watched on in horror in central Paris on April 15, 2019, as flames engulfed the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Gasps and cries of"Oh my god" erupted at 7:50 pm when the top portion of the church's spire came crashing down into an inferno that has spread to the entire roof.

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