Poste de Secours Contre L'incendie - Firehouses on Waymarking.com

[FR] La Brigade de sapeurs-pompiers de Paris (BSPP) est une unité du génie de l'armée de terre française mise à disposition du préfet de police (ministère de l'Intérieur, c'est une formation militaire de sécurité civile). Elle est chargée des missions dévolues aux sapeurs-pompiers, principalement : lutte contre l'incendie ; prévention ; secours à personne ; sauvetage.

Elle intervient pour l'agglomération parisienne, dans Paris et dans ses trois départements limitrophes : Hauts-de-Seine (92), Seine-Saint-Denis (93), Val-de-Marne (94). La devise de la BSPP est « Sauver ou périr ».

Avec 7 412 sapeurs-pompiers, la BSPP est le deuxième service de pompiers au monde derrière New York (16 000) et devant Londres (moins de 7 000).

[EN] The Paris Fire Brigade (French Brigade des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris, BSPP), is a French Army unit which serves as the fire service for Paris and certain sites of national strategic importance.

The Brigade's main area of responsibility is the City of Paris and the surrounding départements of Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine. The other departments in the metropolitan area have their own fire brigades. The other areas are in Kourou, Biscarosse, and Lacq-Artix.

The brigade is a unit of the French Army's Engineering Arm (Génie) and the firefighters are therefore "sappers" (sapeurs, thus sapeurs-pompiers). With nearly 8,500 firemen, it is the largest fire brigade in Europe and the second largest in the world after the New York Fire Department. The Brigade is placed at the disposal of the Paris Prefecture of Police in an arrangement similar to that of the French Gendarmerie.

The only other military force responsible for firefighting in France is the Marseilles Marine Fire Brigade. The remainder of France has civilian fire and rescue services (services départementaux d'incendie et de secours).

(From wikipedia)

Paid or Volunteer: Paid Related Website: [Web Link] Physical Address: 7 rue Malar Paris (7eme), France 75007 EMS Involvement: Not Listed Has 911 Dispatch: Not Listed Has Emergency Call Box: Not Listed Has Emergency Siren: Not Listed Has Fire Pole: Not Listed Average Alarms Per Year: Not Listed Number of Firetrucks: Not Listed Number of Emergency Staff: Not Listed Rating: Not listed

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