That’s the longest mobilisation time in the country, though slightly better than the seven minutes 21 seconds recorded in 2023.
Kildare’s retained fire service has been named the slowest in Ireland to mobilise, according to the latest national performance report.
In 2024, it took an average of seven minutes and nine seconds for retained fire crews in Kildare to get going once a call came in.
That’s the longest mobilisation time in the country, though slightly better than the seven minutes 21 seconds recorded in 2023.
By comparison, most counties get crews on the road within four to six minutes, while full-time brigades in Dublin and Cork mobilise in under two minutes.
Getting to the scene within ten minutes is also slower in Kildare.
Fire tenders arrived within ten minutes in just 16.75 per cent of incidents.
In two-thirds of cases, arrival took between ten and twenty minutes, and in nearly 17 per cent of callouts it took longer than twenty minutes.
While Kildare is the slowest to mobilise, counties like Roscommon and Kerry recorded higher shares of incidents taking more than 20 minutes to reach.
Kildare has six fire stations, with Naas and Newbridge being the only ones that have a full-time station officer each rather than a retained one.
All other fire fighters across the six stations are retained, meaning firefighters are paid a retainer and carry pagers in order to respond to calls.
For other emergencies, such as road accidents, only ten per cent were reached within ten minutes.
The report also shows Kildare runs one of the cheapest fire services in the country, costing just €35.43 per head compared to a national average of €74.85.
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