Irelands Emergency Services Role Playing Community Fire Brigade

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Cork Fire Brigade Services

The Cork Fire Brigades provide a fire and rescue capability for the Cork City and county area. They respond to all varieties of calls from people trapped in cars to full building blazes. They have a fleet of appliances and officers’ cars to help them complete their crucial role in keeping Cork safe.


The Cork City Fire Brigade is the responsible service for fire and rescue in the Cork city metropolitan area while the Cork County Fire Brigade is the responsible service for fire and rescue in the Cork county area.

Cork City Fire Brigade

Anglesea Street Fire Station is strategically placed in the city centre. It is based near the river for river rescue callouts, it’s close to major city and county links for RTCs and its strategic placement also allows for a quick response to any fire callouts in the city.

Anglesea Street is equipped with 2 Frontline Fire Appliances, 1 Emergency Tender, 1 Rapid Response Vehicle, 1 Command Unit, 2 Hydraulic Platforms, 1 Hazmat Response Vehicle, 1 Water Carrier and 3 4x4s. Anglesea Street also houses a fleet of spare vehicles.

Ballyvolane Fire Station is placed in the north suburbs of Cork City. Ballyvolane Fire Station’s strategic placement allows a speedy response to the many industrial estates nearby, local dual carriageways and motorways as well as local residential areas.

Ballyvolane is equipped with 1 Frontline Fire Appliance and 1 4×4. It also houses a spare emergency tender and a spare fire appliance as well as the local Civil Defence Unit.

Ballyvolane Fire Station has recently come under the command of Cork City Fire Brigade. It remains a retained station with fire fighters being alerted via a pager to respond to fire and rescue callouts. Ballincollig Fire Station’s location allows the rapid deployment to both rural and urban areas for RTCs, gorse fires, industrial/domestic fires and more.

Ballincollig is equipped with 2 Frontline Fire Appliances and 1 4×4. It currently also houses a training unit.

Ballyvolane is equipped with 1 Frontline Fire Appliance and 1 4×4. It also houses a spare emergency tender and a spare fire appliance as well as the local Civil Defence Unit.

Cork County Fire Service

Mallow Fire station is a retained station with fire fighters being alerted via a pager to respond to fire and rescue callouts. It is placed on a local dual carriageway giving it an advantage to respond quickly to callouts in neighbouring towns as well as RTCs on the main roads. It also is placed near in Mallow itself providing efficient cover for the town.

Mallow is equipped with 2 Fire Appliances, 1 Emergency Tender as well as 2 support vehicles

 

Kanturk Fire station is a retained station with fire fighters being alerted via a pager to respond to fire and rescue callouts. It’s a small station based in the town of Kanturk. Kanturk is strategically placed to deal with fire and rescue calls for the local area as well as rural calls for the surrounding area.

Kanturk is equipped with 1 Fire Appliance and 1 Support Vehicle.