Our new podcast to discover: immersed on the fire front with the Hérault firefighters

A podcast at the heart of the action with the Hérault firefighters.

A series of four podcasts to listen to from this Monday, August 12, one episode per day.

This summer, Midi Libre was invited to meet some of the key figures in the fight against forest fires, the men who work at the Béziers Cap d’Agde pelicandrome. These shadowy men without whom, the firefighters, on the ground, facing the flames, could easily be put in difficulty.

The podcast series, “On the fire front with the Hérault firefighters” to be discovered from this Monday, August 12 and until Thursday, August 15, offers an immersive meeting with one of these actors, Arno, a seasonal firefighter for 8 years, but also with one of the Dash 8 pilots of the Civil Security, Stéphane Le Hir.

Ten minutes watch in hand to fill up with water

To assimilate the very particular operation of the pelicandrome which serves the air resources of Hérault, but also the national firefighting fleet, it is the head of this center, Sébastien Barthélémy who reveals the behind the scenes.

And finally, with the creator of the only permanent pelicandrome in France that supplies the only departmental fleet in the national territory, Patrick Resplandy, we will discover the mission that was entrusted to him in 1998, by the elected officials of the Department, to set up an air cell that would depend only on local firefighters, to wait, if necessary, for national reinforcements.

To be effective in their mission, the firefighters of the pelicandrome have ten minutes, watch in hand, for the planes to leave the runway with their full tank of water or retardant, towards the fires that are ravaging the vegetation in Hérault or further afield.