International Firefighters’ Day

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International Firefighters Day is celebrated every year on 4 May.

• Every year this day is celebrated to recognize the sacrifice of firefighters.

• The main objective of International Firefighters Day is to honour and thank the firefighters who put their lives at risk to save the lives of people and wildlife from fire.

• The day was instituted after the tragic circumstances of the deaths of five firefighters in a bushfire in Australia on 2 December 1998.

• International Firefighters Day is celebrated on 4 May as this day is also Saint Florian's Day.

• Saint Florian was the commanding firefighter of the Roman battalion, considered the patron saint of firefighters.

• The symbols of Firefighters' Day are red and blue ribbons. In the ribbon, the red colour symbolises fire and the blue colour symbolises water.