Everyone in the Kemp family is a firefighter
In the barracks of the Grevenmacher-Mertert fire and rescue center, little Jaimy walks between the trucks. Here, the 7-year-old is at home. “I would like to go with the big ones and help people,” he said shyly. If he already knows what he would like to do in a few years, it’s thanks to his parents. Jeannot, her father, has been a firefighter for 30 years, and Svenja, her mother joined the center in 2003.
This is where the couple met. “Before, it often happened to us to do interventions together, when the love was fresher”, jokes Jeannot. The 44-year-old, a professional, leads around 150 people, the vast majority of them volunteers, who represent 90% of the country’s firefighters. The training consists of several modules of a few dozen hours and the CGDIS is constantly recruiting volunteers, from the age of 16.
Svenja, his wife, leads the young firefighters section, where children from the age of 6 discover the profession through fun activities twice a month. “We try to transmit to the children to give birth to vocations, she explains. Helping people in difficulty is our primary motivation”. In 2021, the center carried out nearly 2,000 operations.
(yb/The essential)
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