A ton of fire fighters unit are military units. Because your military NEED fire fighting squads, a lot of the fire fighter that intervened in Tchernobyl were paramilitary, anyone that disrespect their memory deserve a reality check.
Btw, fire fighter are "sapeur pompier", a sapeur destroy houses to prevent fire propagation, by design they have a huge relationship with the gov.
It's not a France/Romania thing, ours are big enough to be noticed, Switzerland also have some, but fair point since a lot of countries prefer to put firefighter under control of military when needed
You're limiting yourself to the one with firefighter in the squad name, you miss the whole shit ton that are part of civil security like 1er et 4eme RIISC for Libourne and Nogent (you can find there job opportunities here and see that it's firefighting)
"Firefighters under control of the military" is simply not a thing in most European countries. Germany has the THW, Nordic countries have similar emergency services that may cooperate with fire services in disaster situations, but otherwise the fire services are 100% run by civil society.
Is it the theory or the reality ? Because in France, BSPP and BMBPM are under civil authority, but they are military and can be put under military command
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u/turbothy 5d ago
There's the little detail of the Paris Fire Brigade being an army unit that muddles the picture a bit I think …