Interventions, staff, calls received… Here are five figures on the Ille-et-Vilaine firefighters.
48 469 interventions
This is the number of interventions carried out in the department in 2023. That is one every 11 minutes on average. A relatively stable figure over time, with two exceptions: the hurricane of 1987 and the fires of 2022. “In these two years, we exceeded 50,000 interventions”specifies Commander Jean-François Rault, head of the Codis call processing center (CTA) in Ille-et-Vilaine.
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9.7% fires
We call them fire soldiers, but the majority of firefighters' work concerns personal assistance (73% of interventions carried out last year). Fires represent less than one intervention in ten (9.7%). Next come road rescue (9.3%) and various operations (clearing trees from the road, flooding, opening doors or elevators, etc.)
83 fire centers
The Ille-et-Vilaine Sdis provides assistance to more than a million residents spread across 333 municipalities. With one objective: to intervene at any address in twenty minutes maximum. “And even more like ten minutes for Rennes and Saint-Malo, where we have a high population density”specifies Jean-François Rault. For this, 83 fire and rescue centers are spread across the territory.
3,960 firefighters
The department has a total of 3,960 officers. Including a majority of volunteer firefighters (almost 80% of the workforce), 650 professional firefighters and 170 administrative and technical staff. Without forgetting the 775 emergency vehicles.
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710 calls per day
The processing center (CTA) received nearly 260,000 emergency calls in 2023. Or 710 per day. The operators do “a lot of filtering work”specifies the head of the CTA: only one call in five results in an intervention.
