A volunteer firefighter in the Hérault region is under arrest after he admitted to starting several fires to get an adrenaline rush and for "social recognition", the Montpellier prosecutor's office said on Thursday. The 37-year-old volunteer firefighter was arrested and…
French rescue workers have dug out the body of a man but rescued his baby and the child’s mother from the rubble of a three-story apartment building that collapsed in a suspected gas explosion on southern France’s Mediterranean coast. French…
Emergency workers have rescued and evacuated hundreds of people in southern France as flash flooding abruptly turned roads and fields into rivers and lakes. As new heavy rainfall threatened the area on Wednesday, the emergency service for the Gard region…
Feedback from the field unanimously deplores unprecedented feelings of exclusion, frustration and dysfunction among the fire services, from both the operational staff and management, during the first phase of this crisis, concludes a report by the National Federation of French Firefighters (FNSPF). "The scale…