VERSAILLES: FIREFIGHTERS IN THE HOT SPOT | Enquête d'action | W9

Known throughout the world for its Chateau, Versailles is host to more than 7 million visitors per year from all over the world. To be prepared to come to the assistance of those tourists, as well as the 85,000 residents of the town, 120 firefighters take turns around the clock. For two months, crews from Enquête d’action” followed their interventions in an exceptional setting, which often renders the mission more delicate than in other places. Rescuing casualties from places that are difficult of access, fires that threaten aging dwellings in the old neighborhood, coming to the assistance of people taken ill in the midst of a crowd: almost every hour some new emergency demands the attention of the firefighters of Versailles…”