SECURITY / At the heart of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service, it will allow elected officials but also municipal executives to be trained in the face of the possibility of “rapid floods” or even “forest fires”
-Alpes de Haute-Provence-
They perform on average 12,000 interventions per year, or 35 to 40 every day. At the start of the year, the Lower Alpine firefighters took stock of operational activity for 2024. It recorded a slight decrease in interventions of around 3 to 4%. essentially linked to a rather calm forest fire and natural area season” explains SDIS 04. Around a hundred fires were recorded last year compared to an average of 150 to 200 in previous years. Same thing for various operations.
17 brand new fire stations for 2025
As for the year 2025, the annual building plan, which provides for the reconstruction of 17 barracks out of the 41 in the department, will continue in Riez, Saint André les Alpes, Thoard, Sisteron, but also in Digne les Bains with the construction of a logistics platform.
The virtual reality training center, based in Digne les Bains, will also gain momentum according to Colonel Sylvain Besson, departmental director of SDIS 04. At the request of the prefect, elected officials and municipal executives will be able to be trained in the face of “aew crises that could arise » with climate change.
“Climate change will increase the recurrence of these crises: rapid floods, forest fires. We must prepare for it”, Colonel S. Besson
