Retirements and sick leave have led to personnel reductions at the station Bray Fire Station has staff shortage
UNDERSTAFFING at Bray Fire Station was addressed at a Wicklow County Council meeting this week. Cllr Joe Behan said that crews from elsewhere in the county were brought in to recent calls as Bray ‘could not muster up a full crew’.
County council chief executive Frank Curran said that there were reduced staff levels due to retirements and sick leave.
CONCERN OVER ‘serious under-staffing’ at Bray Fire Station was raised by Cllr Joe Behan at Monday’s meeting of Wicklow County Council.
‘I have received serious information that during recent serious fires, the service in Bray could not muster up a full crew and that crews from Greystones and Wicklow had to be brought in,’ he said.
He also queried if it is true that the new hydraulic lift is now kept in Wicklow Town Fire Station as there are not enough officers in Bray trained in its use. ‘We all know the history of Bray in terms of fire tragedies and this is very, very serious,’ Cllr Behan said.
Chief executive Frank Curran said