Bundoran Fire Crew

Meet the Bundoran Fire Crew

Today, we have a Retained Crew of 9, who are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The crew is made up of 1 Station Officer, 1 Sub-Station Officer, 1 Driver-Mechanic &

6 Firefighters.

As the Crew is never "Off Call", we have to always have at least 7 out of the 9 Crew on call around the town at any one time, this allows for Firefighters holidays, illness or time off away from the town.

Our average response time to callouts, (that's from time of bleep to Fire Engine on the road) is less than 5 minutes.

Station Officer

Michael Goodwin

Station Officer Michael Goodwin

Long Service Award

23 Years Service

Firefighter 1987- 1988,

Sub-Officer 1988 to 2004

Acting Station Officer

Sept '04 - Oct '05

Station Officer

October '05 to present day

Fulltime Occupation

Machine & Tool Hire

Sub-Officer

Eamonn Dowdican

Sub-Officer Eamonn Dowdican

19 Years Service

Firefighter 1991 - October 2005

Sub-Officer Oct '05 to present day

Fulltime Occupation

Carpenter & Tradesman

Driver-Mechanic

Paul Kelly

Driver-Mechanic Paul Kelly

Long Service Award

23 Years Service

Firefighter 1987 - 2000

Acting Driver-Mechanic

1999 - 2000

Driver-Mechanic

2000 to present day

Fulltime Occupation

Electronic, PC Technician

Senior Firefighter

Martin Granaghan

Firefighter Marty Granaghan

Rank = Firefighter

Long Service Award

30 Years Service

Firefighter

1980 to present day

Fulltime Occupation

Bundoran Town Foreman

Firefighter

Neil Gilliland

Firefighter Neil Gilliland

Rank = Firefighter

17 Years Service

Firefighter

1993 to present day

Fulltime Occupation

Caravan Park Management

Firefighter

Daimon Fergus

Firefighter Daimon Fergus

Rank = Firefighter

10 Years Service

Firefighter

2000 to present day

Fulltime Occupation

Vehicle Recovery

Firefighter

Damien McNamara

Firefighter Damien McNamara

Rank = Firefighter

10 Years Service

Firefighter

2000 to present day

Fulltime Occupation

Retired

Firefighter

Tommy Hourihane

Firefighter Tommy Hourihane

Rank = Firefighter

6 Years Service

Firefighter

2004 to present Day

Fulltime Occupation

Electronic Technician

Firefighter

Jerome Travers

Firefighter Jerome Travers

Rank = Firefighter

14 Years Service

Firefighter

1992 -2003

2007 Rejoined Service

Fulltime Occupation

Plumber

As our crew are retained, every member lives and works around the town, and if a 999 or 112 emergency call arises, the pagers are activated and the Brigade can be turned out in an average of 5 minutes. Every member of the Crew is Qualified in First Aid and we also have 2 members trained to First Responder.

On Wednesday 8th June 2005, we joined CAMP WEST which stands for Computer Aided Mobile Programme. This now means that nearly every Fire brigade in the West of Ireland are called out from a Central Control in Castlebar, now known as WRCC

(West Regional Control Centre)

The dedicated Personnel that are on duty in the Control Centre in Castlebar, which is manned 24 hours, 365 days a year, give us all the information we need by means of a paper print-out and we are always in radio communication with them at all times.

All routing directions to get to the Fire incident as well as caller details and other vital information are on this print-out.

CAMP Control Centres in Ireland are WRCC ( Conaught & Donegal), CAMP LEINSTER ( Leinster, Cavan & Monaghan) & CAMP MUNSTER

A Special word of thanks to all the lads on the Crew who provide me with Photographs, Newspaper Cuttings etc, for putting on this website.

Last updated Wednesday July 21, 2010 This is not an official Donegal County Fire Authority site and is compiled and owned by