Offaly Civil Defence

Congratulations to our Third Officer Sivan Govinder who earlier this week informed us that he successfully passed his NQ EMT .

All of us in Offaly CD are delighted for Sivan and once again this shows the dedication and Commitment that Sivan has shown to us here in Offaly Civil Defence over the years.

Congratulations Sivan from all the team in Offaly Civil Defence. 👏👏👍👍🥂🔷🔶




Offaly County Council
Offaly Fire & Rescue Service
Department of Defence - IRL Midlands 103
Offaly Daily

🔷🔶Yesterday turned out to be a busy day kicking off with the National Radiation Exercise from 10 am ✅

🔷🔶 We also supplied first Aid cover at the Annual Corpus Christi Procession in Tullamore yesterday evening @ 6 pm. ✅

🔷🔶 Late last night we had a SEMRA activation for Laois and Offaly CD units to a missing 17 year old who did not return to his family after a planned walk.

Thankfully he knew that he had gone astray and he made his way to a nearby Farm House and looked for assistance from the owners.

AGS were contacted and he was relocated with his concerned family at the Ridge of Capard. In the early hours of Sunday morning. ✅

🔷🔶This was the second call out for assistance in the Slieve Blooms in the last 24 hrs. ✅

🔷🔶Please be aware Currently this area is closed off to the public, for essential repairs and maintenance work. ✅

🔷🔶All in a day supporting the communities of Laois and Offaly from a dedicated CD Volunteer Resources. ✅





Laois County Council
Offaly County Council
An Garda Síochána Laois/Offaly
Midlands 103
LaoisToday
Offaly Daily
Department of Defence - IRL

Don’t be alarmed this morning if you see Civil Defence vehicles and personnel stopped In various locations across the Country.

Currently all units are participating in a National Radiation Exercise in every County and reporting the findings by Radio and Email to Civil Defence HQ. This request is from the EPA - Environmental-Protection - Agency.

# National Response
# Radiation Monitoring Exercise
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Offaly County Council
Offaly Fire & Rescue Service
An Garda Síochána Laois/Offaly
Midlands 103
Department of Defence - IRL

As we head into another Bank Holiday weekend. Take a moment to think about your plans. We all love the outdoors activities in this beautiful weather conditions.

Never go swimming 🏊 alone or in unfamiliar areas. Let others know your plans.✅

Allow extra time in your weekend driving plans, tune into local radio stations for local traffic updates✅

Check the weather conditions and enjoy the outdoors where ever you end up this bank-holiday weekend. ✅

Remember to apply suncream regularly and plenty of hydration also.✅

Never ever Drink and Drive it’s not worth it


-holiday weekend.

Offaly County Council
Midlands 103
Offaly Fire & Rescue Service
An Garda Síochána Laois/Offaly
Department of Defence - IRL

Another busy week for Offaly Civil Defence which included.

🔷🔶Medical and logistical support at the Blackthorn music festival hosted by Gracefield GAA.✅

🔷🔶Medical and logistical support for the Ashling Murphy 4miler in Tullamore last Sunday ✅

🔷🔶Upgrade at HQ of our medical stores by volunteers.✅

🔷🔶 EMT OSCE exams completed by one of our Volunteers, waiting on the results now 🙏🙏✅

🔷🔶CFRA - Recertification Training course today in HQ . ✅

🔷🔶 Many thanks to all our Volunteers and the support of Instructors in delivering these skills to our volunteers crews. ✅





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Midlands 103
Offaly County Council
Offaly Fire & Rescue Service
An Garda Síochána Laois/Offaly
Department of Defence - IRL
Offaly Daily
Offaly Athletics

We had a very busy week in Offaly Civil Defence.

🔷🔶Missing person search, and a successful outcome.✅

🔷🔶 Upskilling and information sharing with EMTs and Paramedics✅

🔷🔶 Training and preparation with EMT student in advance of OSCE exams. ✅

🔷🔶 Offaly Athletics, Ferbane AC 5km run. ✅

🔷🔶Darknesses into light event in Rhode Medical and Logistical support on the night✅

🔷🔶Advance planning and preparation along with Medical and Logistical support for the Offaly County Council - National Bike week event 🚴🚴‍♀️along the Grand Canal from Edenderry to Shannon Harbour. ✅

🔶🔷 Many thanks, to our dedicated volunteer crews for you assistance and support. All in a week supporting # local communities across County Offaly. ✅✅

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Offaly County Council
Offaly Fire & Rescue Service
Midlands 103
An Garda Síochána Laois/Offaly
Department of Defence - IRL
Offaly Daily

Last week a number of our volunteers completed the new National Bike Training Course at our HQ in Tullamore.

Thanks to our Instructors Bob and Liz for organising this training in advance of a busy period of events across the County. The bike unit can deliver basic life support at events in County Offaly.





Offaly County Council
An Garda Síochána Laois/Offaly
Department of Defence - IRL
Offaly Fire & Rescue Service
Offaly Daily
Midlands 103

Yesterday evening Birr Gardai activated Offaly Civil Defence to to a missing person search operation on the outskirts of Birr.

Our search Responders and support crews along with a search team and Drone team from Laois were tasked to the area.

Following discussion with AGS, and concern for the missing persons wellbeing Rescue 115 was dispatched from Shannon to provide further cover and assistance to the operation. Others supports were a number of search dogs from SARDA.

Thankfully shortly after 3 am the missing person was located approx. 1.5 km from her home by the dedicated search teams and the local community and family members were extremely grateful when the good news was conveyed to the family.




fans
An Garda Síochána Laois/Offaly
Department of Defence - IRL
Laois Civil-Defence
Offaly County Council
Midlands 103

Many Thanks to the team at Edenderry Fire Station for the invitation to attend the TY information day for local students.

Our ACDO Bob Flynn was in attendance along with the local Community first responder group from Edenderry and surrounding areas.





fans
Offaly County Council
Offaly Fire & Rescue Service
An Garda Síochána Laois/Offaly
Department of Defence - IRL
Edenderry Community First Responders