Recruitment drive for volunteer pompiers

The government hopes to boost recruitment of volunteer pompiers with measures including better pensions and social protection and a message that it can suit many kinds of people, not just “supermen”.

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Published Thursday 25 October 2018 - 15:24 Modified Thursday 25 October 2018 - 15:24

They want to promote the jeunes sapeurs-pompiers, for 11-18-year-olds, and to encourage people to opt for the pompiers for the future universal national service.

There are also plans to better protect firefighters by more deployment of police and gendarmes to back them up where necessary.