On Tuesday 6 December, the authorities laid the foundation stone of a unique project in the region. The Gignac Interdepartmental Fire Brigade Training Center ushers in a new era in the training of SDIS personnel. The opening is scheduled for April 2024.
This Tuesday, elected officials, representatives of the State and of the SDIS 34, laid the foundation stone of a Ceifor which opens up new perspectives for the training of firefighters “soldiers of the environment”, formulates General Eric Florès, director of the SDIS 34. Ceifor “is part of the logic of avoiding accidents” through training and will include in particular “the first simulator which will allow all our firefighters to pass through a cabin and simulate the passage of a fire (forest-NdR) in a than to find out about the intervention”, details the head of the Hérault fire brigade.
A regional center
With an estimated cost of 26 million euros, financed by all local authorities, the Department in the lead, the project of the SDIS Interdepartmental Training Center in Gignac is ambitious: “It will be the most beautiful technical platform in the south of France. and l ‘unique one in Occitania”, promises Kléber Mesquida, president of the Department and of the SDIS 34. On this site, “the objective of this platform is to open all our training courses to all. We already have interactivity with all the SDIS in the region to be able to train all our colleagues”, General Eric Florès abounds.
Education and youth
Located at the gates of Gignac, on the south side, between the departmental road RD 32 and the Hérault river, the structure takes shape on 10 hectares in “a training plain, between the Simone-Veil high school and the agricultural high school of Gignac” , formula Jean-François Soto, mayor of Gignac and president of the CCVH. A sector dedicated to the security professions should also see the light of day at the Simone-Veil high school in Gignac and Ceifor will develop training in conjunction with the sea high school in Sète “to be able to work on boat fires as well”, says General Flores.
This training center “is one more stone in building the attractiveness of the area”, concludes Eric Suzanne, sub-prefect of Lodève.
