128e The National Congress of Firefighters, which ended on Saturday in Nancy, sounded less with complaints from firefighters than from firefighters after the summer was marked by fires of a dramatic scale (about 63,000 hectares of forest were destroyed). In the corridors of the exhibition center, which hosted the annual high mass, Manuel, a professional firefighter in Sarte, explains that he fought in July; “The biggest fire ever seen in living memory” in his department, that is, 328 hectares were affected by smoke. “We found ourselves in trouble because we had sent crews to Gironde and Finistère to fight the megafires. In turn, we should have benefited from the replenishment of other areas., explains the leader of the group. He says to himself “no illusion” Regarding additional measures required by Departmental Fire and Rescue Services (Sdis) due to“a limited economic context where the state is struggling on all fronts”..
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Source: Le Figaro
