wild fires

rallye150flyer

does anybody know if the civil defence are being used in the wild fires ?

rallye150flyer

rallye150flyer wrote: »

does anybody know if the civil defence are being used in the wild fires ?

Would the Civil Defense make good kindling?

discus

foreign wrote: »

Would the Civil Defense make good kindling?

Only if they are as dry as your wit!

discus

discus wrote: »

Only if they are as dry as your wit!

I couldn't let it pass without saying something. But it is a good question, are they being used in the fight? If not, why not?

ectoraige

The Irish Independent has this quote from Bobby McMenamin:

We received assistance from the civil defence for the fire in Glenvar, but we had to ask the army to come in as our men are getting fatigued now

I haven't heard of them being called up anywhere else yet but I would expect if Defence Forces are called in, it would be after CD units have already been raised and extra manpower is still required.

ivabiggon

if their men a fatigued why aren't they looking for help from other fire service in neighboring counties

rallye150flyer

true there are many many afs units around the country who could be deployed who have fire training maybe not wildfire but surely thats better than troops

ivabiggon

i was just wondering, and hopefully some from the north west or even our fire fighting friends across the border.
In Donegal we have the local authority fire crews, the civil defence fire crews, the army, the air corp and members of coillte all dealing with gorse and bog fires.
does anyone know what sort of resource are been used just north of the border in thie same region considering that the army and RAF wouldn't be used in the nature we use our defence force for security reason, also they seem to be a bit more prepared for this kind of thing, is it because they have a lot more structured service and can call on resource across the 6 counties as opposed to just one county.

ectoraige

ivabiggon wrote: »

if their men a fatigued why aren't they looking for help from other fire service in neighboring counties

Sligo and Leitrim have also been dealing with wildfires, as have many other counties. The Defence Forces do have teams trained in firefighting btw, it's not necessarily a few lads with shovels. That said, the techniques for tackling wildfires are quite different to those used in tackling building fires, sometimes lads with shovels is what is needed.

rescue16

rallye150flyer wrote: »

does anybody know if the civil defence are being used in the wild fires ?

No as a member of the civil defence we have not being deployed anywhere as of yet we were called out last month but it was the welfare unit thats all.

rallye150flyer

I was lookin on buncrana fire and rescue's Facebook page and they had assistance from the local AFS

ectoraige

Louth have also been using Civil Defence units to help build firebreaks according to the Irish Times though it's not clear whether these were AFS or other vols.

civdef

Laois AFS were out assisting fire service today and yesterday.

rallye150flyer

http://www.civildefence.ie/cdweb.nsf/documents/84C5536C421CD8F38025788700354D12

link to the civil defence website detailing the activity's of the civil defence in the recent wild fires