Don't be surprised if you have a firefighter in uniform who has been ringing your doorbell for a few days to sell you the traditional end-of-year calendar, it's logical and normal. The sales period is clearly regulated, and we have been in the middle of it since mid-October.
Last year, the Soissons firefighters' association highlighted the specificities of the teams (climbing, aquatic rescue, etc.), through posters of great cinema classics, such as Spiderman. This year, it is impossible for the association not to make an allusion to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as Sylvain Eloi, the president of the Soissons firefighters' association, explains to L'union.
Always remembering the profession in the photos is the basis of the firefighters' calendar each year
« We start very early in the year to think about the theme we are going to give to the calendar. We must think of feasible photos, which must always remind us of our profession but also not be like those of the neighboring barracks. We are thinking and I can tell you that for next year, I already have 2 firefighters who are already thinking about this. »
For this year, the men and women firefighters as well as the young firefighters were photographed with their professional tools, but put in the style of the Olympics. A cauldron of Olympic flame, a weightlifter where the weights are replaced by coiled lances, fencers who compete with each other using chemical sprays, the stretcher plate transformed into a surfboard, a scrum of 7 rugby firefighters who push a truck, two torches symbolized by the throwing of the pipes…
12,000 printed calendars
The calendar for the year is completed at the end of June at most to go to the printer. This year, just over 12,000 calendars were made. Enough to satisfy Soissons and the 45 municipalities where the calendar is quite anticipated. “ What's funny is that every year, we have people who come to the barracks to buy it, because when we went to their house, they were away. » Last year, around twenty. How much in 2024…
