Mission
As any French firefighter, their missions are
- Fire Suppression
- Emergency Basic Life Support ambulance
- Utility Safety – Gas Leaks et al.
- Personal Assistance – Victims services, SAR lost persons
- Motor vehicle collision response
- Protection of beings
- Patrol, Reconnaissance and Research
- Animal rescue
- Pollution control and HAZMAT Response
- Alarm response
They defend Paris and its "little crown" (close suburbs), but also specific sites:
- Guiana Space Centre of Kourou Guyane
- test field for missiles in Biscarosse
- site for extraction and processing of natural gas in Lacq-Artix
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—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)
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—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)