France’s emergency services and military have seen a surge of interest from young people keen to join up after watching the Paris attacks unfold on television. “During the attacks I saw all these emergency workers helping people voluntarily. I just felt powerless sitting in front of the TV and I said to myself that I wanted to help people as well,” music student Simon Chaudemanche told AFP. The police, fire brigade and armed forces have all reported a jump in young people asking about careers — or like Chaudemanche, wanting to volunteer for a few months. A day or so later the 20-year-old decided to go and volunteer with the Paris fire brigade, where the recruitment office is seeing up to 20 enquiries a day — five times more than before the November 13 carnage, which left 130 people dead and 350 wounded. Chaudemanche signed up for 10 months of community service as part of an ambulance team — run by the fire service in France — in return for a token payment of around 500 euros ($530) a month. The military recruitment centre in Rennes, in western France, has seen a similar trend, with visitor numbers around double their