Colin Murray

Thanks @DubFireBrigade for hosting us at Phibsborough today, a very informative morning. Looking forward to more of these.

📟 🚑 Overnight, alongside @gardainfo we located and rescued an unresponsive person from mud flats in North Dublin. 🏥 The person was far out in deep mud, and after assessment was carried to shore by a stretcher team to a @DubFireBrigade ambulance. (Stock photo)

📟 On Wednesday night, we were tasked to meet a fishing trawler with @gardainfo, which had been located lost at sea by @HowthRNLI ⛴️ The operation ran until 0200hrs, and we were tasked again at 0700hrs to gather further information.

⚠️💨 Our North Dublin coastline is forecast to receive gale force winds today, increasing up to storm force 10 tomorrow. See @MetEireann for more. 🌊 Stay back, stay high, stay dry! 🆘 If you see somebody in difficulty on the coast, call 112 and ask for COAST GUARD.

📟⛰️ On Friday night, we received a report of a person in distress on the coast. ✅ We quickly located the person, and provided them care until the arrival of @gardainfo 🆘 If you see somebody in difficulty, call 112 and ask for COAST GUARD. – at Fingal, Ireland

🦺📍Live *in* Howth and would like to volunteer with us? 🫡 📟 We’re hoping to add a few more *very local* on-call Search & Rescue volunteers to our unit. 📧 No experience required. If interested, email [email protected] asap. – at Fingal, Ireland

📟 ⛺️ Earlier today, we were tasked to reports of “a tent floating out to sea” at Malahide. 🌊 Working alongside @gardainfo we quickly determined the owner, and established it had blown away empty. 🆘 If you spot something unusual on the coast, call 112 and ask for COAST GUARD. – at Fingal, Ireland

⚠️🪼 Warning! A member of the public contacted us, to say their daughter had been badly stung by a Lion’s Mane jellyfish while swimming on Burrow Beach. 🪪 See the attached identification card. 🆘 If you see somebody in difficulty on the coast, call 112 and ask for COAST GUARD.

📟 🚔 This evening, we were tasked with @RNLIDunLaoghair to a report by Dublin Port of a person appearing in difficulty on the North Bull Wall. ✅ On arrival, we spoke with the person and determined no assistance was required.

⛰️🌊 The sea cliffs in Howth are extremely dangerous in strong winds and wet weather. 🚷 We were sent this video of a lucky person slipping on mud trying to get out to a sea stack in a storm. 🆘 If you see somebody in difficulty on the coast, call 112 and ask for COAST GUARD.

🌠🏖️ When a Portmarnock Beach meteorite crater turns out to be a 'hole' new story! Even the news crews got 'swept away' by this one! 🆘 If you see something unexpected on the coast, call 112 and ask for COAST GUARD (but no meteorites please). #aliens #crater #meteorite #dublin – at Fingal, Ireland

📟 🧗‍♂️This afternoon, we were tasked to the report of a casualty near the Baily Lighthouse. The person had been trapped on cliffs overnight. ⛰️Together with @DubFireBrigade and @HowthRNLI, we lowered an Advanced Paramedic & extracted the casualty to an ambulance in the lifeboat.

📟 ⛰️ Last week, we were tasked by @gardainfo to personal belongings found on the coast. Coast Guard quickly located a person on the cliff face below. 🧗 Sadly they were deceased. After a 4hr cliff climbing extraction, a body was recovered into the @HowthRNLI boat below. – at Fingal, Ireland

🫡 Irish Coast Guard Search & Rescue personnel from Howth are participating in todays @NatServicesDay parade at midday. 🏰 We’d love to meet you afterwards at the exhibit of emergency services equipment at Dublin Castle.

👋 Here they come 🎉 – at Dublin City, Ireland

“Toni Ryan. Stalwart of Howth Coast Guard who took part in hundreds of call-outs” — Sunday Independent, 27 Aug 23. Go Mairidís beo.

📟 🦩 This evening, we were tasked to an inflatable drifting offshore with a possible child onboard. 🚁🚤 A multi-agency rescue operation with RNLI, Coast Guard, and Lifeguards discovered the object was a pink flamingo pool toy. Follow up searches determined nobody was missing.

📟 🐶 This morning, our cliff rescue team was paged to Rush to rescue a crag-fast dog fallen down a cliff face. 🧗 As we got to Jackson, he said “fur-get about it” and leapt off, surfing back into the beach himself. We were left ‘howling’ with surprise, what a ‘paw-some’ escape!