There is already a service level agreement in place which means that the NIFRS respond to incidents in East Donegal (being tasked through the Camp West Ops Room).
If your house in Lifford or Burnfoot goes up your Firefighters will come from Strabane and / or Londonderry.
There is no airborne fire-fighting capability in Northern Ireland (in fact I'm not sure the RAF do this apart from in Cyprus)...so its the IAC or no-one else. Its a non-military operation... if it requires diplomatic clearance thats a shame... because it is in effect the Fire Service in the Republic lending assets they have access to... to their colleagues in the North...surely as suggested a template type clearance for this type of situation would be easy to jack up.
If your house in Lifford or Burnfoot goes up your Firefighters will come from Strabane and / or Londonderry.
There is no airborne fire-fighting capability in Northern Ireland (in fact I'm not sure the RAF do this apart from in Cyprus)...so its the IAC or no-one else. Its a non-military operation... if it requires diplomatic clearance thats a shame... because it is in effect the Fire Service in the Republic lending assets they have access to... to their colleagues in the North...surely as suggested a template type clearance for this type of situation would be easy to jack up.
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