Update from Dublin City Council

Dublin City Council’s Crisis Management Team met again this morning for the 3rd time in recent days. 

As of 11.00 this morning, Dublin Fire Brigade has attended 35 storm-related calls for assistance during Storm Eowyn. These calls have involved trees and cables down, along with vehicles damaged by fallen trees, while some roads are blocked across the capital. 

The Eastern Regional Communications Centre based in Dublin Fire Brigade HQ, Townsend Street Fire Station has received over 120 emergency calls (non-ambulance) in total, over 95 of which are storm-related, for other Leinster counties (also including counties Cavan and Monaghan). 

Some structures have been damaged in Dublin including a lamp-post which fell onto a house in Ringsend. In total there have been 77 calls for trees down, 7 for power cables down, 17 structures impacted and 6 roads blocked.

Firefighters are continuing to ask the public to continue to exercise extreme caution during the Orange Warning period.   

Dublin City Council’s Customer Services/Emergency Out of Hours team has taken 72 calls since 8am today. 32 of those have come through the emergency line and been answered in an average of 26 seconds.  

Early tomorrow morning Dublin City Council will be assessing whether it is safe to re-open all services, which remain closed to the public today.  

ENDS