Fire Safety Service: More and More Climate-Related Calls

The Fire Safety Service of the Longueuil Agglomeration (SSIAL) experienced sustained activity in 2024, with 10,309 interventions compared to an average of 7790 over the last 20 years. And according to its director Jean Melançon, more and more interventions are directly related to the climate. "It seems that events that occurred once a hundred years ago occur every year now," says the director of SSIAL, referring here to episodes of severe weathe…