page_title: Fire services in France
hierarchical_section_title: Fire services in France
caption_attribution_description: Photographed in France.
context_page_description: The fire service in France is organised into local fire services which mostly cover the Departments of France, with a few exceptions. There are two types of fire service:
  The Paris Fire Brigade and Marseille Naval Fire Battalion are military units providing fire protection to Paris and Marseille.
  The rest of France has civilian fire services organized, supervised and trained by the French Ministry of the Interior; specifically, they fall under the Civil Defence and Security Directorate.
  There are approximately 246,900 fire service personnel in France operating 15,642 emergency vehicles out of 6,894 emergency centres. In addition to providing fire protection and rescue, the French fire service is also one of the providers of emergency medical services.
  In French, firefighters are known as pompiers or sometimes as sapeurs-pompiers. The latter refers to the military-based Paris Fire Brigade, though it is sometimes informally used for firefighters elsewhere. Pompier comes from the word for "pump", referring to the manual pumps originally used for firefighting.
context_section_description: The fire service in France is organised into local fire services which mostly cover the Departments of France, with a few exceptions. There are two types of fire service:
  The Paris Fire Brigade (Army) and Marseille Naval Fire Battalion (Navy) are military units providing fire protection to Paris and Marseille.
  The rest of France has civilian fire services organized, supervised and trained by the French Ministry of the Interior; specifically, they fall under the Civil Defence and Security Directorate (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile et de la Gestion de Crise, DGSCGC).
  There are approximately 246,900 fire service personnel in France operating 15,642 emergency vehicles out of 6,894 emergency centres. In addition to providing fire protection and rescue, the French fire service is also one of the providers of emergency medical services.
  In French, firefighters are known as pompiers or sometimes as sapeurs-pompiers. The latter refers to the military-based Paris Fire Brigade, though it is sometimes informally used for firefighters elsewhere. Pompier (firefighter) comes from the word for "pump", referring to the manual pumps originally used for firefighting. Sapeur means "sapper" and refers to the first official firefighting unit created by Napoleon I which was part of the military engineering arm. Firefighters in the Marseille Marine Fire Battalion are known as marins-pompiers (sailor-firefighters). The usual name of a civilian fire services is a service departmentaux d'incendie et de secours (SDIS) (Departmental Fire and Rescue Service). Young French citizens can fulfill the mandatory service Service national universel (SNU) in one of the fire brigades.
caption: French Fire brigade Citroën Berlingo in Les Sables-dOlonne
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