This is a first for the SDIS 36, the firefighters of Indre are sending a team to take part in the National Challenge for emergency relief to people and road rescue. It’s here 6th edition of its kind but this is the first time that Indre has taken part, it is also the only team from Centre-Val de Loire to take part. It happens in Nice, all week. 17 Indian firefighters participate.
Competition and exchange of techniques
“We are going to evolve on two typical maneuvers: an extraction in less than 20 minutes, a second extraction in less than twelve minutes of victim of the vehicles.“says Chief Warrant Officer Frank Messin in charge of this challenge. The technicality and safety provided to the victim will be judged but the idea is not only to seek performance but also to exchange and improve certain techniques. . “In two or three interventions at the operational level, we had to suffer extrication difficulties because the vehicles have evolved considerably. With a small group, we studied the question a bit and then we got closer to what _challenge which is above all a sharing of the differences SDIS of France and then which allows to increase the skills of our firefighters_. The interest is to bring innovative techniques back to our territories.”
Recruitment needs 100 volunteers sought
This challenge is also an opportunity to remind that needs are present in the department. Today, there are 1,100 volunteer firefighters in Indre. A hundred are missing: A recruitment plan over 3 years has been validated.
“We need _young volunteer firefighters who, after JSP training, join volunteering at the age of 17, but also women, then people in the 30 to 40 age group, who have a certain family and professional stability_.“explains Colonel Stéphane Calimache, departmental director of the SDIS of Indre. “Today we have to work on typical profiles that allow us to have a little more availability in certain time slots. This is training that is around three weeks or so, but which is spread over three years for questions of availability for someone who is working. There is no question of letting go of the nature of young recruits like that. There is, indeed, a process of accompaniment and supervision for prepare its recruits and fully embrace operational activities.”
If you are interested, you can apply directly to the barracks closest to you or on the site of the fire brigade.
Indre candidate to host the challenge
Indre will be the only SDIS in the Centre-Val de Loire region to participate in the 6th edition of the national road rescue and emergency rescue challenge for people and does not intend to stop there. the department aims to organize the event by 2025 or 2026.