Question 17191 — security of property and people

Summary

Mr. Fabrice Barusseau draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the chronic insufficiency of human, material and financial resources allocated to the departmental fire and rescue services (SDIS). As the effects of climate change increase the frequency and intensity of fires, heatwaves, floods and episodes of submersion, firefighters are called upon to intervene ever more in crises. longer and often simultaneous. The recent fires that occurred on the national territory have once again highlighted the extreme tension weighing on the French civil security model, with several thousand firefighters mobilized and reinforcement columns engaged from throughout the territory. The SPASDIS-CFTC alerts in particular on professionals sometimes engaged for very long periods without relief sufficient. This situation is not new, however. For several years, organizations representing firefighters have been alerting public authorities to the aging of equipment, the decline in forest fire-fighting capabilities, the insufficiency of certain personal protective equipment and the exhaustion of both professional and volunteer firefighters. Added to these operational difficulties new financial charges, in particular the increase in the employer contribution rate to the CNRACL, which weigh on already heavily constrained departmental and SDIS budgets. If the State has announced, as part of the capacity pacts, an investment of 150 million euros co-financed at 60% for the acquisition of more than 1,000 forest fire tankers, these measures remain insufficient given the scale of needs and of the acceleration of risks. Actors in the field thus denounce a policy that is still too ad hoc and reactive, while civil security now requires a stable, multi-annual and long-term financed strategy. Adaptation to climate change cannot be limited to observing the increase in risks: it requires us to adapt now the means of those who protect populations. It is not possible to ask the SDIS to do more and more, in the face of ever-increasing crises, with human and material resources that are not progressing to meet needs. Also, he asks what structural measures the Government intends to take in order to guarantee sustainable and appropriate financing of the SDIS, to strengthen their workforce and to sustainably modernize their material and operational resources. He also wants to know if the Government is considering a reform of the civil security financing model allowing for increased and sustainable participation by the State, so that local authorities no longer bear alone the continued increase in the cost of climate risks and relief missions.

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