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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by i_am_proteus on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:51PM (#19667808)
Former (volunteer) firefighter here:

Park the truck next to the cistern. Connect a length of hose to the pump supply, drop the hose into the cistern. The pump will move water until it loses suction pressure.

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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by JshWright on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:55PM (#19667861)
Not just any hose though, you need rigid walled hose. Regular fire hose would just collapse flat under suction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_suction_hose

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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by stcredzero on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:57PM (#19667881)
Is the hose to be dropped into the cistern different from the other hoses? I would expect it to be reinforced, such that it wouldn't collapse from air pressure. Hoses downstream from a high pressure pump wouldn't need such reinforcement. However, it's different upstream from such pumps.
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