Storm Éowyn – January 2025

29 January 2025

Civil Defence Units countrywide have been on standby for deployment since Wednesday 22nd January to assist PRAs and communities in the wake of Storm Éowyn which wreaked havoc across the country on Friday 24^th January.

Deployments commenced on Wednesday 22^nd January. Volunteers have been activated across a total of 21 local authority areas:

 Westmeath:

Supplied Westmeath County Fire Service with beds, sleeping bags and sleeping bag liners for four Fire Stations.

Supplied and set up bedding in Emergency Management Centre.

Attending Community Response Forum meetings.

Tipperary:

Attending SWAT team meetings and Crisis Management team meetings.

Conducted welfare checks on vulnerable people, without power, isolated due to fallen trees.

CD HQ made avaialable for showers, charging of devices etc.

Meath:

Attending SWAT team meetings.

Prepared equipment for Emergency Accommodation Centre for homeless.

Checked routes for hazardous debris in support of area engineers.

Assisted Cavan Civil Defence with delivery of hot meals to retirement village.

Preparing to assist Uisce Éireann with distribution of water.

Providing generators to two vulnerable families to run water pumps for sanitary and heating purposes.

Delivering water to homes on behalf of Uisce Éireann.

Dublin:

Attending SWAT team meetings.

Transported Water Tanker and 5 Generators to Monaghan Fire Station.

Transporting 6 Generators to Lifford, Donegal.

Laois:

Attending SWAT team meetings.

Assisted Housing Section with planning for Rest Centres.

Assisted with setting up of CMT and MEM rooms at County Hall.

Set up 6 Emergency Rest Centres across the county.

Assisted in setting up local coordination centre.

Provided information management assistance (5 members) in local coordination centre.

Asked by CCMA through Director of Service to be prepared to:

Assisting ESB and Uisce Éireann with access and transport.

Providing drone support to ESB network team.

Donegal:

Attending SWAT team meetings.

Attending NDFEM meetings.

Attending NECG meetings.

Made one home support transportation.

Assisted with one medical intervention.

Conducted welfare check on elderly living alone in Finn Valley area.

Provided care on site to elderly person with health issues, who was without electricity.

Delivered fuel to four houses in remote area of Strabane, who were without electricity or phones.

Assisted with establishment of Community Forum.

Conducted welfare checks on 14 houses of persons living alone in Killygordon, Donegal, Aghyaran and Castlederg (Tyrone).

Attending Community Forum meetings.

Humanitarian assistance to 90 year old, without water, electricity or heating.

Transfer of Generators from Dublin to Donegal County Council.

Donegal CD HQ made available to public for showers, washing/drying clothes, Wifi, charging of devices, hot food etc.

Delivering Generators received from Dublin CD to Donegal County Council.

Mayo:

Attending SWAT team meetings.

Set-up Rest Centre to accommodate 15 people.

Assisted a vulnerable elderly lady with charging of her essential medical equipment.

Drone team deployed to assist ESB with network damage review.

Attending Community Response Forum meetings.

Numerous calls to vulnerable people via Community Response Forum.

Assisted Galway Civil Defence with transfer of equipment from Ballina to Glanamaddy.

Longford:

Attending Crisis Management Team meetings.

Treated person with minor arm injury.

Assessed local park for damage on behalf of local authority.

Distributed emergency diesel supplies for generator at council building.

Opened park for ESB networks.

Providing welfare checks to vulnerable people and delivering humanitarian aid.

Delivering bottled water to nursing homes and vulnerable persons for Uisce Éireann.

Attending Community Response Forum meetings.

Offaly:

Attending SWAT team meetings.

Distributed camp beds to assist homeless.

Attended NECG meeting.

Clare:

Attending SWAT team meetings.

Assisted family to access their home following damage due to fallen trees.

Drone team mobilised to assess roads for ESB crews.

Drone teams on standby to assist ESB crews with assessments of downed cables.

Conducted welfare checks on vulnerable people.

Drone teams deployed to assist ESB in Galway and in Clare.

Conducted 11 welfare checks on vulnerable people, tasked via community helpline.

Set up Control Room at CD HQ.

Delivering bottled water to Community Respoonse Hubs.

Wexford:

Attending SWAT meetings.

Provided beds for homeless.

Provided generators and emergency lights to LCC.

Tetra Radios made available for emergency back-up.

CD HQ manned to assist public with access to devices charging, washing machine and dryer etc.

Kilkenny:

Attended Crisis Management Team meetings.

Set up emergency shelter with capacity for 20.

Provided beds for homeless services and St Luke’s hospital.

Supported local authority with Comms.

Manning emergency phones for local authority.

Monaghan:

Asked to be prepared to:

Set up rest centre for displaced persons.

Transport food to vulnerable people.

Aid in treatment/transport of patients in event of HSE getting overrun.

Deliver items of aid around the county.

Transported a member of County Council staff to work.

Attended Crisis Management Team meeting and Local Resilience meeting.

Storing 20 pallets of drinking water for Uisce Éireann, to supply Nursing Homes and vulnerable people.

Delivering water to Monaghan hospital and to care homes around the county.

Drone Team deployed to assist ESB network team for a number of days.

Carlow:

Attending SWAT team meetings.

Set-up Emergency Response Centre.

Galway:

Attended NDFEM and Crisis Management Team (CMT) meetings.

Transported person with mobility issues from Merlin Park hospital to Ballinasloe.

Conducted welfare check on patient for ALONE in Ballinasloe.

Conducting welfare checks on vulnerable persons, as per CMT requests.

Collected Generator for Community Hub in Glenamaddy.

Drone Team assisting ESB networks team in Connemara.

Cork West:

Delivered camp beds to Bantry General Hospital.

Delivered camp beds to ten Fire Stations and one NAS base.

Cavan:

Distributed 30 hot meals to elderly people in retirement village who were without power.

Assisted with setting up of Community Forum.

Attending Community Response Forum meetings.

Opened CD HQ to persons wishing to avail of Internet, have hot drink, and heat.

Attending Crisis Management Team meetings.

Conducted welfare check on vulnerable persons with disabilities, without power or water.

Delivered water and groceries to vulnerable persons, without power or water.

Sligo:

Attended meeting with Chief Fire Officer.

Attended SWAT team meetings.

Delivered camp beds to Fire Station in pre for overnight stay, if required.

Cork City:

Attended SWAT team meetings.

Kildare:

Attended SWAT team meetings.

Cork North & East:

Delivered camp beds and sleeping bags to nine Fire Stations.

Delivered camp beds and sleeping bags to County Hall.

Roscommon:

Attended SWAT team meetings.

Assisted local authority with Comms.

Delivered 4 Generators to PRAs and homes of palliative care patients.

Attending Crisis Management Team meetings.

Delivered 5 Generators to patients homes across the county.

Wicklow:

Established toolbox talks on Prowork.

Assisted houses threatened by flooding in Wicklow harbour area.

Assisting in Arklow with flood defence in areas affected by high tide.

Conducted welfare checks on vulnerable people without power in west Wicklow.

Limerick:

Attended Crisis Management Team meetings.

Leitrim:

Attended SWAT team meetings.

Attending multi agency Community Forum meetings.

Provided camp beds, pillows and sleeping bags to Fire Service for staff staying overnight in Fire Stations.

Cleared a blocked entrance lane to isolated home.

Louth:

Drone team assisting ESB network team in Cavan.

 

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