Welcome to Rathdrum's Web site. Here we hope to give you an insight into

the workings of Rathdrum Fire Brigade and introduce you to the crew

First of all Rathdrum is a retained unit. This means that we are on call by

means of an alerter system.  So if there is a call, it goes through a central

control room in Tara Street in Dublin called the Eastern Regional Control

Centre. They take the call and then set off our alerters. We then make our

way to the Fire Station where on  arrival at the Station we will have a

We would then proceed to the incident and deal with it as appropriate.

Rathdrum covers a wide area from Turlough hill in the North to Avoca in the

South. Taking in Glendalough, Laragh, Annamoe, Glenealy, Glenmalure. A lot

of our area is Forest and wild land. So we get a lot of calls to wildfires and

Forest fires. We border with Fire units in Wicklow, Arklow, Tinahely and

Dunlavin.

The Fire Authority in Wicklow is Wicklow County Council and the Headquarters

for the Fire service is based in the Fire Station in Bray. In all there are 99

Bray Fire station is also a Training centre for Wicklow County and runs

Have you checked your Smoke alarm ?

Call Sign WW14A1

This is an unofficial site and does not belong to or represent the views of the Wicklow County Fire Service

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