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In 2024, the ERCC mobilised 155,000 fire appliance • December was the busiest month of the year
resources to service 105,000 incidents both in Dublin recording 21,828 calls with the key driver of this
and the wider east region. In addition, the ERCC notified activity being ambulance calls resulting from an
senior officers on 10,500 occasions, managed radio early flu surge and weather related activity.
operations with responding fire crews and processed
125,000 incident related support calls. • On the Sunday 11th of August, between 13:00 hrs
and 14:00 hrs, 207 emergency calls were received
Some key metrics relating to the ERCC in 2024 include making this hour the busiest hour of the year. 190 of
• The increase in the level of emergency calls in 2024 the calls related to a wildfire recorded in the vicinity
of Barnacullia, near Sandyford Co. Dublin which
was primarily driven by an increase in both fire and endangered several homes and resulted in a large
ambulance activity in the Dublin area. plume of smoke visible over South County Dublin.
• The average daily number of emergency calls The ERCC were required to ensure that callers were
received in the ERCC was 615 in 2024 in no immediate danger and advise callers to stay
• In 2024, the average duration of an emergency fire indoors and shut windows due to excessive smoke.
call was 105 seconds with ambulance calls lasting
on average 345 seconds in duration. • Storm Darragh was the name given by Met Eireann
• The 31st of October (Halloween) was the busiest to a winter storm which impacted Ireland on the
day of the year with 1391 emergency calls being 7th of December. This was the second busiest day
received with 1023 of these calls received between of ERCC operations during the year. While Dublin
16 hrs and midnight. This was the busiest day escaped the worst of the storm, the regional fire
since the end of Covid Pandemic and the busiest authorities in Leinster, Cavan and Monaghan had
Halloween since 2007. spate conditions for several hours with 400 storm
related calls being processed by the ERCC over a 6
hour period.
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