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DUBLIN FIRE BRIGADE had an “exceptionally busy time of it” last night with almost 300 ambulance calls made over the course of the night alone.
A spokesperson for the service said that between 250 and 300 calls were received by the service over the course of Saturday night, with roughly 400 calls received throughout the day as a whole.
“It was one of the busiest nights of the year, an absolute logistical nightmare,” the spokesperson said.
We were sending appliances (fire engines) everywhere.
Dublin Fire Brigade / TwitterSome images from the school fire in Tallaght which is now under control #Dublin #fire 4 units attended, no injuries reported pic.twitter.com/34bPaeS2Uj
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) November 26, 2016
One of the issues the service dealt with was a fire at a national school in Tallaght, with four units required to bring the blaze under control.
Thankfully no serious injuries were reported throughout the night.
At present Dublin Fire Brigade is closing in on 100,000 ambulance calls received for the whole of 2016.
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and ministers think they pay these heroes too much………???
Well said.
My father has been lying on a trolley in the mater for over 24 hours and will have stay until the morning as there are no beds in any wards. My dad is 90. He doesn’t deserve to be left there due to the ineptitude of our politicians and pen pushing hse ‘managers’. Try to make sure your elderly family members don’t get sick at the weekend as the senior doctors only work Monday to Friday 9 to 5
@Fergal O’Hagan: The number of beds taken up by people who should not be in hospitals needs to be looked at seriously by an independent body. We can only wonder at how many of those 300 call-outs involved self inflicted harm. I spent a very short time on a trolley, went for xray and my bed had been given to a drunken female when I got back. At 1500 hrs . That’s in the afternoon ffs
Too many people are taking up beds because they’ve no family to take care of them and they can’t be released from hospital until alternative accommodation is sorted for them ..something needs to be done .
100,000 ambulance calls done by only 12 DFB ambulances!
Really. Do the math and say that again
@Paddy Byrne:
Yes really….
Explain why you don’t seem to think that’s possible.
100000/365 =274 calls per day
274/12= 23 calls per ambulance
So roughly 1 call per hour per ambulance for a year seems quite reasonable.
@JOKER: And 1 in 4 is a hoax call ;)
Joker is actually correct the service is not just 12 Ambulances, it’s only accounting for ambulances operated by DFB and doesn’t reflect the NAS fleet in the city which is currently being expanded.
A percentage of that 100k calls would have been handled by NAS vehicles.
The 100000 is only reflecting the calls received by DFB, it doesn’t translate to DFB only handling said calls or calls that come into the NAS control room for Dublin
@Kevin Gill: If there was ever a FACT CHECK needed it would be done on figures released and claimed by DFB…… Having a full time photographer on board highlights the constant neediness for publicity
What’s bizzare is that the photographer seemed more interested in the firefighters doing drills than having pictures relating to the story
Where’d you get that figure from?
Not when you take into account time spent on scene and in hospitals waiting to handover. Ambulances is Dublin are flat out. With little or no down time.
Since when do they have a full time photographer? You’re listening to some nonsense obviously
The journals reporting is the issue here. Not the fact that someone managed to take a few snaps of an incident.
?????
It’s was “super-busy” was it?
Since when has American nuances been apart of Irish journalism?
Sloppy writing.
Wonder how many calls the NAS clocked up looking after the rest of Dublin and “not dublin”?
Rte and Independent.ie quote 210 calls for the same story. For an emergency service spokesperson to be so flexible with statistics is worrying. Is this what our taxes are going on? Is this why there are beds in fire stations? So they can claim for calls they don’t do? Any mention of the National Ambulance Service , and what portion of the calls ‘received’ were done by them?
Subcreatures ??? !!!! ?????
Can we not just say it was really busy, or does every thing now have to be Americanised?
And the silly season begins
Ambulance Calls ?
I thought this was about the Fire Brigade ?
Dublin fire bridge operate 14 ambulances in Dublin
The DFB operate 12 ambulances under contract to the Hse, this is complimented by the National Ambulance Service who provide emergency ambulances in the city and county.
The NAS have also added additional vehicles into the city.
The 100000 calls would include calls serviced by NAS when requested by DFB and doesn’t include calls in Dublin that come into the National Emergency Operations Centre the NAS control room.
The 100,000 calls are in fact incidents which where created on the dispatching system in the DFB control room. A portion of these calls will have been passed to the NAS as they may have had an ambulance nearer to the patient. Likewise, a portion of the NAS calls will have been passed to DFB for the same reason. Fire calls are separate completely. However, often a fire appliance is dispatched to a serious incident for paramedic back up, or chain of survival. This does not count as a fire turnout, only as an ambulance turnout. So the total DFB mobilisations are far higher than the figures presented. Likewise a multi casualty RTA may go in as a single fire call, despite the fact a number of ambulances are also required, it only counts as one fire turnout. The people of Dublin are extremely lucky to have an EMS system in operation in the city. It increases the chance of survival for the most life threatening conditions. Whether its a NAS or DFB ambulance that arrives at your door you can be sure the staff are 100% committed to giving the patient the best standard of care possible. That is what “your taxes” are paying for.
See first paragraph of the article
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