A female firefighter has been suspended by her superiors. She is suspected of having filled her swimming pool with a barracks van in the midst of a drought.
Filling your pool in the middle of a heat wave is prohibited. When you’re a firefighter and you use a fire station truck connected to a fire hydrant, it’s just as much!
This is the unusual story told by The Daily The Western Mail. The facts occurred in Niort in the Deux-Sèvres in August when the department was the subject of a prefectural decree for the restriction of the use of water.
This head sergeant, a volunteer firefighter, would have taken advantage of a training maneuver to connect a barracks van to a fire hydrant and thus fill up a large capacity tank (4000 litres). The opportunity to then go fill his swimming pool which had just been built at his home!
The leaders of the SDIS of Deux-Sèvres learned with amazement of the facts which they consider “intolerable” and going once morest the values of probity and exemplarity which the firefighters must embody. They announced that sanctions would be taken. An internal procedure is in progress.
