By air, land, French police track forest fire-starters


France creates the Forest Vigilance Platoon made up of 15 reservist gendarmes, a senior police officer and two motorcyclists from the mobile brigade, backed up by the helicopter to combat forest fires. – AFP pic, August 14, 2022.

ON THE ground, two officers from a special mobile brigade of France’s paramilitary gendarmerie speed a long a forest track.

Above them, a helicopter scans the landscape to warn them of any fires or anyone who might be looking to start one.


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