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category wicklow | miscellaneous | feature author Wednesday August 20, 2008 07:59author by Flood Victim - Killincarrig Residentsauthor address Killincarrig Cross Roads Report this post to the editors

Wicklow County Council has no flood plan and it's Fire Service is not allowed respond to flooding.

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CC Photo: Maj Adev The N3 Under Water

On Saturday 16th August at 3pm the Coolagad river burst its banks in Delgany Co. Wicklow. A culvert under the R761 collapsed and forced a road closure and millions of gallons of water to flow into Killincarrig village. What happened next can only be described as gross negligence by Wicklow County Council and it's Fire Service. Approxamitely 20 residents started to look for assistance from the various state agencies but were ignored. WCC had no emergency numbers in place, had no crews working on the ground, had no sandbags filled and would not allow its Fire Service to be dispatched.

Wicklow is the only County in Ireland that refuses to dispatch Fire Brigades to floods. In light of the recent history of this service and its problems in Bray you would think that the powers that be would put their budgetary problems aside and assist the taxpayers that fund this service. Dublin Fire Brigade provides a call-out service to Wicklow Fire Service from Tara St. in Dublin.

The operators of this service informed our residents that they received 250 calls from Wicklow Residents to deal with flooding. They were unable to dispatch any Wicklow based brigades because of restrictions imposed by the Chief Fire Officer of Co. Wicklow. They were also unable to give an emergency number for WCC.



The phones lines in WCC buildings in Wicklow were automated and not programmed to deal with emergencies. The phone line in the Greystones office rang out. Members of Greystones Fire Brigade have informed us that they are not allowed respond to floods and did not receive any calls to do so on Saturday 18th August.

Met Eireann started to issue weather warnings via the media on Friday morning, these warnings were titled "Severe Weather Alert for the East Coast of Ireland - expect severe flooding" Wicklow County Council ignored this and should now be held accountable. Please lobby your local Councillors to stop this abandonment of our citizens in their time of need. Call for the resignation of the Fire Officer and the County Manager and call into question the planners of this county that continue to allow streams to be diverted into culverts.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Fire Brigade refused to come     Delgany Resident    Mon Aug 18, 2008 13:39 
   No one to help!     Mill Road Resident    Mon Aug 18, 2008 14:20 
   Culverts     River man    Mon Aug 18, 2008 16:54 
   No help in Kilcoole either     Mr. White    Mon Aug 18, 2008 17:20 
   flood victims/wicklow area     maxi    Mon Aug 18, 2008 21:49 
   Arklow flooding     Radio Ga GA    Tue Aug 19, 2008 08:33 
   Co. Councils don't give a damn.     Caoimhain    Tue Aug 19, 2008 17:14 
   Management should resign     Firefighter    Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:43 


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