Search Results for 'Dave Stuart'

Just 24 hours after Westmeath’s chief fire officer outlined a plan to streamline fire services in the county, councillors hit out, fearing job losses and a risk to health and safety.

As part of a national plan to consolidate fire services from 30 to 21 units, the brigades of Mullingar, Athlone, and Longford are to amalgamate by 2015, it was revealed this week.

There are no plans to build a fire station in Kinnegad despite a 260 per cent increase in its population in the last 10 years, Westmeath County Council learned at its monthly meeting in Mullingar this week (February 23).

“It’s a great honour to have the conference here,” said Westmeath’s Chief Fire Officer of the two day Chief Fire Officers’ Association conference in Mullingar this week.