Like all their colleagues across France, the Haute-Garonne firefighters will not come to your place as is traditional at this time of year to offer you their calendar. Distribution has been suspended due to containment. The sale of the calendar can bring in from 30,000 to 80,000 € per brigade for the friendly firefighters who finance the social works of firefighters.
The 2021 calendar already printed
“The calendar is 95% of the resources of our social and associative works » already calculates Commander Gilles Raymond, the head of the Rouffiac-Tolosan fire center east of Toulouse, he also chairs the Haute Garonne Sapeurs Union which brings together the 34 firefighters’ associations of the department. The 2021 calendars are already printed and stored in the barracks, but they will not be distributed until the lockdown is lifted. “We do it in all conscience, we wear the uniform, by our missions, it is up to us to set an example, and it is up to us to respect the instructions of the government. “
People are waiting for us to show their gratitude
For the firefighters, abandoning their traditional tour of the population is heartbreaking. “People quite honestly, it’s not really the schedule they expect, it’s the firefighters. They’re waiting to chat a little with us, very simply to show us their gratitude for what we do, for our daily missions. “
