The fire and rescue service for the south of the country is run from an office block, not a fire station. From the Twenty 8 building at 5 rue Jules Ferry, the CGDIS Zone de secours Sud coordinates 16 fire and rescue centres and around 1,150 volunteer and professional firefighters across 17 communes, from Differdange to Dudelange, by the service’s own count in April 2025.
The CGDIS, the Corps grand-ducal d’incendie et de secours, has existed since 1 July 2018, when it brought the country’s fire and rescue services together in one public body shared by the State and the communes. It is organised in four zones, Centre, Est, Nord and Sud, and these are the Sud zone’s offices. They moved to Belval because the old ones, in houses beside the Esch-sur-Alzette fire station, were needed to extend it.
This is also where the zone’s prevention and planning service sits. It handles the fire-safety files for building projects in the south, commune by commune, which is the reason most people ever deal with it, and it is done by phone on 49771 6020 or by email to sud-prevention@cgdis.lu rather than by turning up.
It is not a station, and nothing leaves from here on a call. In an emergency, fire or ambulance, call 112, free from any phone. The police are on 113.
