Rescue3 becomes the official standard for Swiss fire brigades

It's official: Rescue 3 becomes the national standard for fire brigades in Switzerland.

Around the table are the president of Rescue 3 Europe Jonhatan Gormanthe Director of the Swiss Fire Brigade Federation, Swiss Fire Brigade Robert Schmidlthe Head of Training Jean Philippe CrosetSgt. Maj-Gen Nicholas Millot responsible for training the Geneva Fire Brigade and David Alemanni director of SAFE - European River and Flood Rescue School and head of Rescue 3 for Switzerland.

This is the fruit of hard work started more than 10 years ago by Sgt Millot and Alemanni and many others who have believed and sweated to bring this project forward.

Millot, attended an SRT course (the first module for river and flood rescue technicians) organised by SAFE® in Geneva in 2003 and was enthusiastic. Apart from the validity of the techniques proposed by Rescue 3, he liked above all the idea of having a single standard, a shared modus operandi for river rescue that could be applied throughout Switzerland and beyond. Since the first course to date, courses for basic and advanced river rescue technicians, specialisation workshops for rescuing vehicles in water, rescue in weirs, consultancy for securing artificial dams in urban environments, and much more have been realised.

From this year, David Alemanni, Instructor trainer for Rescue 3, will coordinate the training of fire brigade instructors who in turn will train rescue workers within the commands.

Good work everyone!