Editing Sapper (section)

====Firefighters====
[[File:BSPP section Bastille Day 2008.jpg|thumb|right|''Sapeurs-pompiers de Paris'' ([[Paris Fire Brigade]]) on parade]]
{{See also|Fire services in France}}
The first fire company created by [[Napoleon|Napoléon I]] was a military sapper company of the [[French Imperial Guard]], created in 1810. This company was tasked with the protection of the Imperial palaces after the tragic fire of the Austrian embassy in Paris on 1 July 1810. The Paris Fire Service (''gardes-pompes''), a civilian institution, was re-organized as a military unit in September 1811, becoming the Paris Sappers-Firefighters Battalion. Other cities kept or created civilian firefighters services but used the military ranks and organization of the Paris Battalion. In 1831, [[National Guard (France)|National Guard]] engineers companies became the reserve components of the Fire Services and kept their military organization even after the disappearance of the National Guard in 1852. Sapper-firefighter is the common title of the civilian and Paris firefighters in France, but the other military firefighters units, such as the [[Marseille Naval Fire Battalion]], do not use the sapper title, as they had no military engineers lineage.