Overview
- Departments used the annual ceremonies to honor service with medals and promotions while delivering operational reviews of a demanding year.
- Commanders recalled the Corbières wildfire that swept more than 16,000 hectares, a defining incident of the 2025 summer season.
- In Aveyron, the Sdis reported assisting nearly 14,000 people with a 6% rise in activity, advanced the Nexsis alert system, expanded Staying Alive usage to about 1,300 people, and outlined work on new stations and a joint 15–18 call platform.
- Lannemezan detailed four-year recruitment growth from roughly 56 to 95 firefighters, put a new VSR‑M into service, added a hybrid transport vehicle with on-site charging, and saw interventions approach 1,500 this year.
- In Carcassonne, roughly fifteen medals were presented as leaders cited more than 5,700 interventions, deployments to Mayotte for Cyclone Chido, and recent local incidents; ceremonies in the Alpes‑de‑Haute‑Provence also paid tribute to three firefighters who died this year.