전날 저녁 미사가 끝난 직후 성당 지붕 위에서 불길이 처음으로 확인됐을 때를 돌이키면서는 "지옥과 같았다"고 했다.
"It was like hell," he said, searching right back on the very first time the fire was seen on the top of the cathedral right after Mass the last night.