Sécurité Civile
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- The Script error: No such module "Lang". are the French firefighters.
- The Script error: No such module "Lang". is the crisis oversight service. It includes the units involved in bomb disposal, coast guard, mountain rescue, air ambulance and medical evacuation, and aerial firefighting duties.
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Aircraft
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Helicopter group
The Script error: No such module "Lang". helicopter group has 23 helicopter bases in mainland France and its overseas territories. It has a fleet of 35 helicopters and employs 230 pilots and flight engineers and 50 ground engineers. Over its 50 years of activity, the helicopter group has an impressive track record, with 480,000 flight hours, 250,000 rescue missions and 225,000 people rescued.[6] Helicopter group aircraft use the callsign "DRAGON", followed by the number of the Script error: No such module "Lang". in which their base is located.[2]
- Eurocopter EC145 (35)
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Bases
Helicopter group bases of operation are located at:.[8]
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- Ajaccio (Corsica)
- Annecy
- Bastia (Corsica)
- Besançon
- Bordeaux
- Cannes
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Granville
- Grenoble
- Le Havre
- Lille
- Lorient
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Montpellier
- Paris - Issy-les-Moulineaux
- Pau
- Perpignan
- Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe)
- Quimper
- La Rochelle
- Strasbourg
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Helicopters are detached to several other bases seasonally. In summer, aircraft are detached to Courchevel, Alpes d'Huez, Gavarnie, Lacanau, and Chamonix. In winter, aircraft are detached to Chamonix and Alpes d'Huez.[8]
Water bomber group
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- Bombardier 415 (12)
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Two pre-owned Bombardier Dash 8 Q400s, acquired from Scandinavian Airlines System, were modified by Cascade Aerospace of Abbotsford, British Columbia, for the Script error: No such module "Lang". to act as fire-fighting water bombers in fire season and as transport aircraft off season. This aircraft is designated the Q400-MR (Multi Role). The aircraft can be reconfigured into the passenger, cargo or aerial fire control role in under three hours[11] and can drop Script error: No such module "convert". in the tanker role.[12] 6 more ordered in 2017 for 365M€, 4 delivered by the end of 2021.
Bases
All fixed-wing aircraft are based at Garons Provence Airport.
Bomb disposal
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307 Script error: No such module "Lang". bomb disposal experts are based at 20 bomb disposal units, including 2 overseas units (Guadeloupe and French Guiana). They are responsible for the detection, removal, disposal or destruction of suspicious objects. They also provide assistance during official travel or large demonstrations and disarm and destroy dormant ammunition still present from the two world wars.[13]
In 2004, Script error: No such module "convert". of munitions was disposed of, whilst forty-three bomb disposal experts were deployed on the sixtieth anniversary of the Normandy landings, seventeen on the sixtieth anniversary of the landing in Provence, and sixteen during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Lourdes.[13]
References
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