Made with Xara Web Designer Hello, 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 members. 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 printout giving us the details of the type of incident we have to deal with. This printout gives us details like · Type of incident (Fire, Accident ect,) · Location of incident · Number of units going to the incident · Contact numbers 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. Fire Authority 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 Fire Fighter’s based in 10 Stations throughout Wicklow. Bray Fire station is also a Training centre for Wicklow County and runs courses for Fire Fighters from all over the Country. 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 Designed & Built by SO Brendan Mason