The number of active volunteer firefighters has only increased by 30 to 3,730 since 2018. The Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (CGDIS) boasts an approximate total of 6,320 firefighters. Around 600 new members have joined the CGDIS ranks since 2018. Some 560 individuals quit CGDIS since 2018, Minister of the Interior Taina Bofferding specified in her reply to a parliamentary question by Pirate Party MP Marc Goergen.
Luxembourg now also boasts 550 paid full-time firefighters, an increase of 175 since 2018. Bofferding also addressed the mandatory medical aptitude test firefighters have to undergo; 1,630 of these checks were carried out last year. 180 people were deemed inapt for service.
The minister concluded that there had, to her knowledge, never been a shortage of firefighters to respond to incidents.
