Firefighters from the Puy-de-Dôme SDIS are beginning a two-month strike this Monday. They are protesting against a cut in funding, a "disastrous management" and are calling for more staff to be taken on.
According to the trade unions, contacted by our editorial team, there is currently a shortfall of around forty professional firefighters, and this is only the beginning, as more than a hundred are set to retire within the next four years. "Posts that will not be filled" the trade unions assure our colleagues at Radio Scoop.
According to the same source, no fewer than one hundred officers gathered on Monday morning outside the main emergency services centre in Clermont-Ferrand.