Maximilien Carlier 8:26 p.m., March 08, 2022
This Tuesday evening, a convoy of firefighters from the GSCF Groupe de Secours Catastrophe Français left Gonnehem in Pas-de-Calais towards the border between Ukraine and Poland.
These 15 volunteers specialized in emergency missions provide humanitarian aid.
A minibus and three trucks full of boxes.
Inside, bandages, compresses, food, clothes.
Damien, a volunteer at the GSCF loads one of the trucks.
"We find foodstuffs, hygiene. For children too, there are baby bottles. Everything will be used for people who leave Ukraine in an emergency" "These donations come from associations, town halls, individuals", adds he.
This represents between 40 and 50 tons of material.
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On the spot, people completely lost.
Damien is on his first mission in Korczowa on the border between Poland and Ukraine.
It is the second for Gentil de Passos, also a volunteer, who was very marked by his first intervention on the spot.
"I had never seen looks like that. People completely haggard, with a suitcase in their hand, others a bag, or a baby. They were lost. They don't know where they are coming from or where they are. C 'is sad".
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In addition to humanitarian aid, these firefighters can also, in the event of an emergency, repatriate French people or Ukrainians who have family in France.