PART ONE: GENERAL PROVISIONS

A communal or inter-communal fire brigade is composed of: l° Professional fire fighters; 2° Volunteer fire fighters.

In the event of operational difficulties, a communal or inter-communal fire brigade is disbanded by order of the High Commissioner, following the opinion of the mayor or the president of the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with competence in fire and rescue matters. This order specifies the conditions for the reorganisation of the fire brigade and the arrangements required to provide emergency services until this reorganisation.

Professional or volunteer firefighters who are officers and, when they are chosen from among professional or volunteer firefighters who are not officers, fire and rescue centre chiefs and communal or inter-communal corps chiefs are appointed to their post and, in the case of officers, to their grade, by the mayor or the president of the deliberative body of the public establishment of inter-communal cooperation competent in fire and rescue matters,…

Volunteer firefighters who belong to a communal or inter-communal fire brigade and civic service firefighter volunteers, once they have completed their initial training, are expected to take part in all the tasks assigned to the fire and rescue services. They are obliged to undergo the training required to perform their duties. The costs of this training are part of the compulsory expenditure incurred by municipalities or their groupings for fire…

The fire and rescue services are only required to carry out interventions that are directly related to their public service missions as defined in article L. 1852-2 If they have carried out interventions that are not directly related to the exercise of their missions, they may ask the beneficiaries to contribute to the costs, under the conditions determined by deliberation of the municipal council or the deliberative body of the…