The Civil Defence held a flood evacuation exercise on Broadmeadows estuary yesterday. The swiftwater rescue, medical, boat and fire crews were practicing rescuing casualties from a flooded housing estate and recovering them to a rest and welfare centre set up at the nearby Portmarnock leisure centre. Howth Coast Guard volunteers were along to assist in [...]
“Howth Coast Guard, this is Fishing Trawler Alpha, Fishing Trawler Alpha” began the training exercise last Saturday. “We are moored in Howth Harbour and have a mechanic trapped injured in the engine room. Please assist immediately.”
Howth Coast Guard had organised a training exercise to evacuate an injured crewman from the engine room of a trawler. [...]
Howth Coast Guard were today involved in three seperate incidents along with their normal Saturday exercise.
While out this morning on regular exercise, which involved the rescue and recovery of a man trapped in a gully below the nose of Howth, the CG unit received a call at 1300 from Dublin MRCC that a flare had [...]
Last night Howth Coast Guard were paid a visit by ‘D’ watch of Kilbarrack Fire Station in a continuation of the joint education scheme we are running with the local fire service. The District Officer covering the North Strand and Kilbarrack stations was also in attendance. Over the next few months all the watches from [...]
‘A Watch’ crew of Kilbarrack Fire station visited Howth Coast Guard last night as part of a joint education scheme we are running between the two local services. The FB crew were given a run through and explaination of all the equipment on station and the capabilities of the Coast Guard volunteers based in Howth. [...]
As part of regular training, Howth CG unit received their helicopter familarisation session tonight. Coast Guard Rescue helicopter ‘mike echo sierra’ landed at the Baily lighthouse pad to facilitate the session. It’s important that the boat and shore crews working with the helicopter on incidents know the safety precautions to take while working around it. The helicopter crew [...]
Howth Coast Guard Unit were out on the cliffs today at Whitewaterbrook as part of their regular training. A full stretcher recovery was put into action today as they were given a realistic scenario for a rescue. A person had fallen and injured themselves while out walking on the cliff path down to the beach and needed to be [...]
With no prior-knowledge, the team arrived down on Saturday morning to attend a regular 11am training session to find a full-scale exercise was under-way. At 1058hrs the team phone rang “Howth Coast Guard - For Exercise Only, We have a group of lost mountain bikers on the cliffs. Their friends have not met at their [...]
Due to the ‘inclement’ weather this morning the crew stayed close to the station. Our new salvage/fire pump was put through it’s paces much to the amusement of the Howth seals. A first aid exercise was carried out in the station using a scenario of somebody falling down the stairs and having suspected spinal and [...]
Howth Coast Guard boat ‘Grainne‘ was out this morning training with Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter ‘Sierra Alpha Romeo’. We started first with a wet winch. Barbara, one of Grainne’s crew was put into the water and the helicopter approached in, hovered and the winch man recovered her. She was dunked in again by the heli [...]
