By Carmel Hayes LOCAL firefighters are going to hell and back to help people with autism in the county. Members of all eight fire stations in Laois have…
Members of Laois Fire Service covering Portarlington, Portlaoise, Abbeyleix, Rathdowney, Durrow, Mountmellick, Stradbally and Mountrath are going to Hell and Ba.
Multiple services scrambled as injured person stretchered down from Slieve Bloom Mountains
Multiple services scrambled as injured person stretchered down from Slieve Bloom Mountains
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A visitor to the Slieve Bloom mountains in was rescued by multiple emergency services after an injury on Wednesday.
The incident happened on Wednesday, June 10, with Laois Civil Defence and Laois Fire Service called out to help the National Ambulance Service to bring down the patient safely from the mountain. Earlier today (Wednesday) Laois Civil Defence responded to a callout in the Slieve Bloom Mountains to assist the National Ambulance Service (NAS) with an injured patient.
Firefighters tackle huge fire in Slieve Blooms
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Fire crews tackled a large fire in the Slieve Bloom mountains on the Laois-Offaly border on Sunday March 7.
Crews from Mountrath, Portlaoise, Mountmellick and Rathdowney stations spent the Sunday dealing with a large fire on Conlawn Hill near Ballyfin on the Laois side of the mountains.
Below: Laois fire crews fighting the fire. The legal season for burning of vegetation has ended.
An Garda Siochána and National Parks & Wildlife Service will be investigating the source of Sunday’s fire.
Laois Offaly Wildlife Trust has urged people to report illegal fires immediately.
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