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"No Real Fire Is Going on": at the Palace of Versailles, a Life-Size Exercise for the Protection of Works of Art

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An exercise to test the procedures for the evacuation of works of art takes place on Monday at the Palace of Versailles. A hundred firefighters and six intervention trucks participate in this life-size simulation. The works of the midday wing, an important collection of paintings, will have to be picked up by the firefighters. - "No real fire is going on": at the Palace of Versailles, a life-size exercise for the protection of works of art (Cult…

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An exercise to test the procedures for the evacuation of works of art takes place on Monday at the Palace of Versailles. A hundred firefighters and six intervention trucks participate in this life-size simulation. The works of the midday wing, an important collection of paintings, will have to be picked up by the firefighters. - "No real fire is going on": at the Palace of Versailles, a life-size exercise for the protection of works of art (Cult…

firefighters in the Palace of Versailles - AFP A hundred firefighters took part last Monday in a life-size exercise at the Palace of Versailles. The aim is to learn to protect and evacuate collections in the event of a fire, leaving, in the most extreme situations, to cut some canvases to shelter them.A fictitious scenario is at the heart of the exercise: a fire is declared on the second floor of the wing of the Midi of the Palace of Versailles.…

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TF1 INFO broke the news on Monday, November 9, 2026.
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