Santa Claus is rappelling from the hospital to visit the children
The Calvados firefighters and the Caen hospital center have teamed up to surprise the children.
Santa Claus made a sensational arrival at the Caen hospital center on Tuesday. He abandoned the chimneys to abseil down the wall of the establishment and surprise the hospitalized children. This operation, a few days before Christmas, was carried out thanks to the firefighters of Calvados.
“The bravest are the children”
The rescuers thus invested the hospital on Tuesday not for a start of fire but for another mission: the arrival of Santa Claus. In his disguise, a GRIMP rescuer abseiled 80 meters from the top of the CHU tower, under the watchful eye of Lieutenant Olivier Moreau.
“It’s an initiative to change the ideas of sick children, to get them out of their daily situation with the aim of saying that they are the bravest because they fight every day against the disease”, explains the lieutenant to BFM Normandie .
Distribution of gifts
On the ground, the children noticed the stunt Santa Claus. Syrialle, eight years old, intends to tell her little sister. “I took a video”, tells the little girl to BFM Normandie who wants to tell her little sister that she saw “Santa Claus who abseils”.
Firefighters and Santa Claus then distributed gifts to hospitalized children.