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Fire
In front of an audience full of guests, François Vallier, the general controller at the head of the 5,000 Moselle firefighters, recalled the two events of the year soon to pass: the floods of May 17 in the department and the big fire of November 17 in the historic center of Metz. This intervention earned decorations for certain volunteers and professionals who arrived first on the scene and who ensured the evacuation of local residents and the security of the perimeter while fighting the flames.
This was also the spirit of François Vallier's message to all these men and women ready to help their neighbors: a firefighter can certainly perform an act of individual bravery (diving into a river to save a person from the drowning or entering a burning room to evacuate a victim), but he can't do anything without his comrades. They learn together, improve together, face adversity together.
Social workers
Unity and solidarity will still be values to maintain among the troops and to instill in future firefighters. And for good reason: the challenges promise to be significant “with global warming and the cataclysms that result from it,” continued François Vallier.
Rescue firefighters but also increasingly social workers: a certain number of calls to 18 come from people affected by precariousness, affected by poverty or plunged into solitude. Result: “After stagnation in recent years, the number of interventions will have increased by 10% by the end of the year. We will have reached 77,000 interventions for the entire department. »
