The report was not intended to be known to the general public, but it made a lot of noise. The National Federation of Firefighters draws up a very severe observation of the management of the Covid-19 crisis. This internal report, intended for the Ministry of the Interior, was released Sunday by Le Parisien . He points to an outdated health administration, a saturated emergency number, or prefects relegated to the background. But what we also understand between the lines is that the firefighters have the impression of being the forgotten ones of the crisis.
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Because if the caregivers were applauded, if the cashiers become heroes of everyday life, everything happens as if the firefighters, themselves, had not been mobilized, regrets Colonel Grégory Allione. "When you know that the firefighters have gone reinforced from the call centers of the 15 centers that were saturated ... When you have that the firefighters have gone to the hospitals to sort out areas, between those and those who were symptomatic or supposed to be Covid and the emergencies that were real and not Covid ... ", lists the president of the National Federation of Firefighters. "All of this has never been said, has never been highlighted. However, this is what made us able to deal locally, territorially, with Covid-19."
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The firefighter also criticized the transport of patients on medical trains, while the firefighters were ready. "When you have entire ambulance columns with firefighters who are ready. When everyone has their guns down, the columns are made up, and you are told 'no, ultimately it is not not you '... and we learn that there is a train that has left. OK, whose act ", breath, bitter, Grégory Allione.
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These critics whistle the ears of the president of Samu François Braun. "The firefighters have been saying for months and months that they are becoming health supplements, that they do not want to do it, and that it is not their job, etc. we did without them, that's it, "retorts the doctor. "And we succeeded, that may be what creases them."
François Braun will be heard Monday afternoon by the commission of inquiry of the National Assembly ... unlike the representatives of the firefighters who never had a say. At least before publishing their own report.