A female volunteer firefighter in Niort has been suspended by her hierarchy, suspected of having used a rescue truck to fill her swimming pool during a period of water restrictions in Deux-Sèvres, according to firefighters and the departmental council.
This chief sergeant is accused of having taken advantage of a training maneuver, in which other volunteer firefighters participated, to connect a large capacity van - which can contain up to 4000 liters - to a pole fire and fill part of his swimming pool just built at his home in the agglomeration.
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President of the board of directors of Sdis 79 and elected to the departmental council, Claire Paulic told an AFP correspondent that she was "
informed of the facts
", which she described as "
intolerable
".
“
Sanctions will be taken
”, she assured, adding that “
the Sdis is committed to ensuring respect in its ranks for the values of probity and exemplarity and that it does not intend to derogate from these values
”.
The acting director of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) of Deux-Sèvres, Colonel Damien Sallier, did not wish to speak on the subject, simply indicating that “
an internal procedure was in progress
".
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According to the newspaper
Le Courrier de l'Ouest
, the volunteer firefighter, mother, was summoned by the Sdis and did not deny the facts.
In August, the Deux-Sèvres department was subject to prefectural decrees limiting certain uses of water due to summer heat waves and drought, with a ban on filling and emptying public or private swimming pools.
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