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On Sunday July 10, preparations for the July 14 celebrations intensified. The soldiers are not the only ones to parade since firefighters had a dress rehearsal very early in the morning.
They come from Hauts-de-France and, for them, July 14 is a very important date, because they will parade on the prestigious avenue des Champs-Élysées. The firefighters repeated Sunday July 10, at dawn, their passage during the parade which will take place to commemorate the national holiday. “He it has to be a block, it’s united, cohesion and when you pass, it’s rows, it’s columns, it’s rows. There is nothing else, we must not see anything”declares Lieutenant Eric Missuefrom 15th battalion of Firefighters of France.
To have the chance to be able to parade on the Champs-Elyseesthis battalion has from skip multiple selections. “We chained, I don’t know, more than eleven selections and in the end, here it is (…). I’m very happy and very proud to be here.”se rejoices a young firefighter. For the 77 members of this battalion, it is a real accomplishment to be able to represent the firefighters.
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