This year, the firefighters will have carried out nine maneuvers.
This Friday, November 1, the gendarmes and firefighters of Axat, supervised by lieutenant Jules Bouchou, carried out a joint maneuver on the theme of urban fire inside the gendarmerie subdivision.
Each year, firefighters must carry out six compulsory maneuvers, the themes of which are imposed by the department's Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis), according to national recommendations.
At Axat, they made nine in total, including three more in free choice, inspired by the themes of the year. These maneuvers make it possible to practice gestures, tactical reasoning, correct errors, get firefighters to work together, train new recruits and help all personnel progress. They also make it possible to discover new materials, in this case the ARI (isolated breathing apparatus) and the Lifepack (new first aid control device). “We were asked by the head of the Axat gendarmerie brigade to jointly carry out an exercise inside the gendarmerie subdivision, explains Jules Bouchou, to work on immediate reactions from the gendarmes so that emergency services can intervene in good conditions.”
Following a scenario imagined by Jules, a fire was simulated in one of the apartments' garages with a victim inside.
In total, three vehicles from the center were involved in the incident, an ambulance and two fire trucks. Fourteen firefighters, a young firefighter from the Haute Vallée as victim, and three soldiers from the Axat gendarmerie participated in this maneuver which lasted an hour. “We were able to carry out several urban fire and rescue missions since in total, three people were taken care of for a first aid assessment. The call was made by a gendarme at the alert processing center, at 18 , which triggered the intervention of emergency services”specifies Jules.
He also indicates that the maneuver went very well and that it made it possible to pool the different skills of the firefighters and the police and to provide some additional information that was very useful for both services.
