On Thursday 4 May 2017, the Fire and Ambulance Service of the City of Luxembourg presented its activity report for the year 2016.
On 24 March, the City of Luxembourg, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure laid the foundation stone for the new National Fire and Rescue Centre at Kockelscheuer Boulevard in Gasperich.
As part of the reform of the rescue services, the CNIS will bring together the fire brigade of the City of Luxembourg, the Directorate of the future Grand-Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps with the Central Emergency Relief Centre, The National School of Civil Protection and the current National School of Fire and Rescue Services. This proximity to the city's firefighters will enable professionalisation of rescue services at the national level and the creation of significant synergies. Either in terms of the operation of the new emergency centre, the establishment of a unified chain of command, or in the area of planning and prevention.
The new CNIS, divided into two parts, provides "administration", "emergency station", "disinfection station" and "medical station" zones, the National Emergency Training Institute and a training hall reproducing A sample of buildings representative of the architecture of the Grand Duchy and allowing the realistic simulation of numerous scenarios of accidents or fires. Thanks to this large-scale project led by the City and the State, the situation of the City's Fire and Rescue Service will be considerably improved from 2020, when the Arlon Road Service moved to The new site with modern infrastructure, high performance and state-of-the-art technology.
According to the rectified budget for the year 2016, the ordinary expenses of the Fire and Ambulance Service (personnel and operation) amounted to €21,476,900 and extraordinary expenses, including expenses for the new CNIS, acquisition of computer equipment, transformations and repairs of buildings for own use, acquisition of tools, machines or even vehicles, to €5,522,700.
Image: Lydia Polfer laying the first stone for the new Fire & Rescue Centre in Gasperich in March 2017
