This convoy must transport “11 fire vehicles, 16 emergency vehicles and 23 trucks carrying 49 tons of medical and emergency equipment”.
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Aid for the “Ukrainian emergency service”, “mobilized day and night to help the victims” of the war in Ukraine. A French convoy of 100 firefighters and rescuers will transport emergency equipment and vehicles to the border between Romania and Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior announced in a press release. , Tuesday, March 22.
“A hundred firefighters and rescuers will bring the vehicles and equipment donated to the border with Ukraine on March 23: 11 fire engines, 16 personal rescue vehicles and 23 trucks carrying 49 tons of medical equipment and emergency equipment (protective equipment, hand ladders, fire hoses, medical equipment, etc.), specifies the press release. The ministries add that“a convoy of 21 new ambulances which left on March 22 completes this donation”.
As the press release points out, these operations are carried out within the framework of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM). They “testify to the solidarity of France, its local authorities and its companies towards the Ukrainian people”.