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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Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)
“The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)