hi Val
The French Pompiers, especially les benevoles, are the epitome of the concept of fraternite.
My ex-partner was a Pompier for twenty years and as well as keeping down a job she was available nights one week in the month, the four watches taking it in turn. This not considering her being available every day of the month during the hours of daylight.
During that week the beeper would go and she would bound out of bed and jump into her uniform returning sometimes four hours later. Sometimes it was just some old man who had fallen out of bed and could not get off the floor but other times it was a car that had crashed with awful fatalities. I could always tell if it had been bad.
And then she had to go off to work and try to wipe the memory of the previous night away so that she could do her work supervising maternale kids at school.
I cannot express how proud I am of her for that work and the work of all Pompiers but especially les benevoles. Selfless people with a generous social agenda.
Gerald Stubbs
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