Skerries team
Skerries Coast Guard station house and emergency 4WD
Skerries Coast Guard is a voluntary coastal rescue unit of the Irish Coast Guard (IRCG), one of the four State emergency services. The unit’s station house is located at Red Island lane in Skerries. Its members are local men and women volunteers on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, who give their time freely to the Irish Coast Guard, local community and those in peril on the sea, cliffs and coasts of Ireland.
The coastal area covered by the Skerries team stretches from Laytown, Co Meath right up to Malahide, Co Dublin. This amounts to some 40 miles of varied shoreline, including river estuaries and offshore islands.
Habitual tasks undertaken by the Skerries Coast Guard team include:
- Rescue of persons close inshore and in tidal waters
- Searching for missing persons, chemicals, ordinance, etc on all terrain types
- Providing first aid treatment to casualties
- Ensuring public safety during major incidents
- Local co-ordination of other rescue resources during an incident
- Preparing and controlling helicopter emergency landing sites
- Promoting an awareness of water safety
- Providing communication links for other emergency services
- Assisting other emergency services (Ambulance/Garda/Fire brigade) to respond to an incident
