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Brian Tracey from Dublin Fire Brigade with his son, Micheal Trancy aged 2 outside Garden of Remembrance Leah Farrell via Photocall Ireland
Protest

"If the cuts are brought in...there's no way one man could pull out two firefighters"

Trade unions said the firefighters may strike if the proposed reductions go ahead.

FIREFIGHTERS MARCHED IN Dublin today against attempts by the government to cut their crewing levels.

The Department of the Environment wants to reduce the number of people who attend certain fires as part of the Keeping Communities Safe Plan.

However unions believe it could jeopardise their safety of both firefighters and the public.

The chair of SIPTU’s retained firefighters national committee, Ciaran Scall, said the cuts will mean firefighter couldn’t go into a house fire with people inside:

At the moment if your house is on fire and God forbid there was people inside -we would go into the building because we know that if something goes wrong there are two firefighters outside that can go in and pull out the other two…if the cuts are brought in there would only be one firefighter and there’s no way he could pull out two firefighters.

"If the cuts are brought in...there's no way one man could pull out two firefighters"
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    Matt Connellan from Dublin Fire Brigade
  • SIPTU Firefighter March

    Brian Tracey from Dublin Fire Brigade with his son, Micheal Trancy aged 2 outside Garden of Remembrance

(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

Trade unions said the firefighters may strike if the proposed reductions go ahead.

The march included both full-time and retained firefighters and ended with a rally.

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