What is the central idea of this paragraph

You can tell that this is the central idea by key phrases and sentences. "Barely managed..." and "spectators were asked to help" are two phrases the supported the central idea of they were not equipped to fight such a large fire.

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explanation:

it refers to the definition of full-contact sports, where the condition is that the sport must have athletes must "purposely collide with each other

for me this my answer o fortunately, they did not notice, and i could pretend not to care.​   i hope this you