fire and rescue service

PHOTOGRAPHED USING A CANON 5DIII JANUARY 04 2024

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Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) is a fire, rescue and emergency ambulance service. They are the largest full time brigade in the country. With 12 full-time stations and two part-time stations in strategic locations across Dublin they can respond to emergencies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

This was my first session in 2024 and my SD card failed, first time ever, but I was saved by the fact that my Canon 5DIII has two cards and all the images were copied to the CF card which requires a special reader but fortunately one of my Lacie Hubs featured a suitable reader,

Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) is the fire and rescue service and ambulance service for County Dublin, including Dublin city, in Ireland. It is a local authority service, operated by Dublin City Council on behalf of that council and those of Fingal, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown and South Dublin. There are currently 14 fire stations staffed by DFB, 12 of which are full-time, the other 2 are “retained” (they work on a pager system, with staff having between 5 and 7 minutes to attend the station in the event of a call) and operate on call 24/7 365 days a year with up to 500 calls per year. Full-time stations are staffed by shifts across 4 watches (A, B, C & D). There are currently over 963 active firefighter/paramedic personnel making it by far the largest fire service based on personnel and resources in Ireland.

Dublin City’s first two municipal fire engines were supplied in 1711 by John Oates, the city’s water engineer and a manufacturer of water pumps. The Dublin Corporation paid Oates £6 to maintain the fire engines and a crew of six firefighters to attend any fire in the city. Throughout the second half of the 18th century, insurance brigades were the primary source of firefighting for the city, operating independently for buildings bearing the mark of their respective insurance companies. Eventually the brigades began to co-operate on a competition basis with the first brigade on scene being the highest paid. It wasn’t until 1862 with the enactment of the Dublin Corporation Act, that the city had an organised fire brigade. Dublin man J.R. Ingram became the first superintendent of the brigade, having worked as a fireman in New York and London. The brigade consisted of 24 men with a makeshift fire brigade station on Winetavern Street in The Liberties. In 1898 the Dublin Fire Brigade Ambulance Service was established. The turn of the century saw the brigade have its first fire stations and permanent headquarters built, with the first motorised fire engine entering service on 13 December 1909.

Dublin Fire Brigade operates 14 ambulances on behalf of the Health Service Executive and 2 advanced paramedic response vehicles with staff rotating between fire and ambulance duties. Most firefighters are PHECC registered paramedics or advanced paramedics. Dublin Fire Brigade’s fire and rescue resources are funded by and under the remit of Dublin City Council, and medical resources are funded by the HSE via service-level agreement from the National Ambulance Service annual budget.

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