Dublin Fire Brigade

Swimmers suffer breathing problems after chlorine leak A swimming pool at a Dublin hotel has been shut down following a chemical incident that resulted in multiple hospital admissions, including those of ten children. The emergency unfolded at the Clayton Hotel in Liffey Valley on Thursday afternoon, when elevated chlorine levels left swimmers experiencing breathing difficulties […]

4 days ago

Dublin Bus launches full investigation as fire takes blaze Tuesday morning A Dublin Bus was evacuated after it caught fire on Morehampton Road in Donnybrook during Tuesday morning’s rush hour. The E1 service went up in flames shortly after 9am, with the driver ordering all passengers off before the blaze took hold. Emergency services attended […]

2 months ago

Dublin Fire Brigade has issued important advice, with its units expected to be ‘on scene for the foreseeable future’. Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) is currently fighting a massive blaze in north Dublin with “smoke visible across the city”. In a statement on Thursday afternoon (Thursday, 6 August), DFB said it was aware of an industrial […]

2 months ago

Firefighters tackle the blaze on Slieve Donard mountain on April 24, 2021. Image: Getty.

2 months ago

Seven fire engines and three ambulances are on the scene. Gardaí and emergency services are at the scene of a fire in Dublin city centre that has left two people hospitalised. In a statement to JOE, Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) said it received multiple calls at around 6.40am on Tuesday (28 April) reporting a fire […]

6 months ago

Protesters want the carbon tax to be abolished and fuel costs to be ‘brought back to an affordable level’. Both An Garda Síochána and the Dublin Fire Brigade have issued new statements regarding the fuel protests taking place across Ireland today (Wednesday, 8 April). A response to the recent, much-publicised surge in fuel prices, the […]

6 months ago