DUBLIN Fire Brigade had one of their busiest Halloween in years yesterday as they dealt with over 1,100 calls and tackled 700 incidents and more than 350 bonfires and cars set alight.
As well as the fire callouts, there were also over 250 ambulances cases handheld by the DFB center.
“It was really, really busy, all day and all night,” a DFB spokesperson said.
The emergency service was expecting “between 800 and 900″ calls, so the 1,100 calls that did come in made for a particularly busy evening.
By comparison, DFB last year received 872 Halloween calls.
The Dublin Fire Brigade Twitter account released a live map of the volume of incidents in the area at different times throughout the night.
Live map updated with areas of incidents #Halloween #Dublin #firehttps://t.co/MVbPn8on9R pic.twitter.com/9TshngDGmc
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) October 31, 2017
Firefighters from North Strand station (B Watch) have been called to this large bonfire in a complex #Dublin #Halloween pic.twitter.com/LGEoMSYIPi
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) October 31, 2017
We work closely with Gardai at all kinds of incidents, crews from Dolphin's Barn stn here at a South Dublin fire #Dublin #fire pic.twitter.com/JMM32QCqYx
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) November 1, 2017
Tallaght fire stn (B Watch) dealing with a car fire on a green area. Magnesium is a danger with these fires, never approach #Dublin #fire pic.twitter.com/83dhdI96R8
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) November 1, 2017
Thankfully there were no injuries amongst members of the fire crew last night, although DFB did say that a number of incidents required additional garda callouts, mainly in relation to underage drinking.
