Emergency calls – Fires, attacks and settling of scores: Marseille under pressure – Emergency calls

Dive into the heart of the news: “Emergency Calls” immersed in a large city that has made the headlines several times this summer: Marseille. During the summer holidays, the 2,400 firefighters of the second largest city in France were not idle. To their credit, more than 128,000 interventions per year, but the most sensitive took place during these summer holidays. Firefighters found themselves on the front line, in the middle of the score-settling that punctuated the months of July and August, to try to save young victims injured by bullets in clashes between gangs or with the police. They also had a lot to do with the tense celebrations of July 14: burned cars and powerful firecrackers set off several fires in the middle of homes, forcing firefighters to mobilize their heaviest resources in order to avoid numerous tragedies. Difficult interventions in a city saturated with tourists from Canebière to the northern districts via the large popular coastal beaches.