Drama at the fire station in Tomblaine (Meurthe-et-Moselle), near Nancy. A professional firefighter, 36, ended his life while on duty Wednesday night by jumping from the top of the ladder. Large ladder that he had deployed 30 meters high in the courtyard of his barracks.
A non-commissioned officer, father of a 4-year-old child and also a volunteer firefighter at the Val de Seille barracks, he had been mobilized during the summer for the fires that ravaged the Gironde.
Colleagues “immersed in disarray”
The Tomblaine intervention center, which has 55 professional firefighters and around forty volunteers, is in shock. “All of his colleagues and the departmental body are plunged into disarray following this sudden and painful disappearance,” Lieutenant-Colonel Bertrand Lepoutère, communications officer for SDIS 54, told AFP on Thursday. been opened to shed light on the circumstances of this death which occurred in a workplace.