COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, October 23, 2023

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

"To ask the CEO to confirm the level of services and equipment available at the Fire Station on Belgard Road; will he seek assurances from the Chief Fire Officer that the Belgard Road Fire Station has the capability to deal in a timely and effective manner and may we have a statement?"

REPLY: 

The Chief Fire Officer has been contacted in respect of Fire Brigade services and level of resources available in the County and in particular Belgard Fire Station. His response is as follows:

Resources Specifically Assigned to South Dublin County Council Functional Area:

Dublin Fire Brigade’s (DFB) Bravo District (District responsible for the fire cover South Dublin County Council) is the area covered by Dolphins Barn and Tallaght Fire stations. Depending on the nature and location of an emergency, crews from any one of these stations will respond.

Tallaght Fire Station has two Class-B Water Tenders. These are appliances are crewed by an officer and four/five firefighters, one firefighter acting as the driver / pump operator. They are equipped with a pump and a variety of firefighting and road traffic collision rescue equipment.

Resources in DFB Bravo District:

Station	Location	Appliances / Vehicles	Personnel
No 2 District Station	Dolphins barn	Water Tender Class B    x2 Ambulance                      x 1 Emergency Rescue Tender x 1 District Officers Command Vehicle x 1	District Officer    x 1 Station Officer    x 1 Sub Officer          x 2 Firefighters         x 13
No 7 Station	Tallaght	Water Tender Class B  x 2 Ambulance                      x 1	Station Officer      x 1 Sub Officer            x 1 Firefighters           x 11

Additionally, any resources required to augment these resources will be sent from adjoining districts / stations as would specialised fire appliances required. Specialist fire appliances include, turn-table-ladders, emergency tenders, foam tenders etc.

Turntable Ladder appliances are on the Pre-Determined Attendance for high-rise developments for all areas of the city and county.  These appliances can be in attendance in the Tallaght area within the national guideline travel times for Special Aerial Appliances.  However, we are currently reviewing our Aerial Appliance deployment model for the city, which may see these appliances being redeployed to other station areas in the future. The Minister announced that Dublin will be getting 4 new appliances and one of these appliances will be for Tallaght Fire Station.

A new 42 metre ladder has come into service in DFB with a second 42m ladder on order with expected delivery of the 1^st Quarter of next year. As part of ongoing fire service familiarisation, visits (each station undertakes a programme of pre-fire planning and familiarisation visits) and exercises for dry riser and hydrant inspection and testing takes place.