{"id":350,"date":"2016-11-29T15:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:52:46","slug":"monaghan-civil-defence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/monaghan-civil-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaghan Civil Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">What We do\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Monaghan Civil Defence plays a very important role in assisting the front line services with trained personnel to respond to emergencies in addition to supporting and facilitating community activities.<\/p>\n<p>Our Members bring their own talents into the organisation and learn new skills which in turn are used to serve the communities they live in.<\/p>\n<p>We support the frontline emergency services in dealing with severe weather, flooding, major accidents and searching for missing people. Civil Defence supports hundreds of community events throughout the year. These include large events such as air shows, tall ships, concerts, festivals and sports events. We also support smaller local events such as parades.<\/p>\n<h4>We have 5 core services:<\/h4>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1196 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/Civil-Defence-Icons-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/Civil-Defence-Icons-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/Civil-Defence-Icons-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/Civil-Defence-Icons-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/Civil-Defence-Icons-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/Civil-Defence-Icons-648x365.png 648w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/Civil-Defence-Icons-341x192.png 341w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/firebuildingcontrol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/02\/Civil-Defence-Icons.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our role is to act as a secondary response agency, backing up the Garda, HSE-Ambulance service, and Fire service in time of need, for example when there are severe weather events and gorse fires.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Benefits of joining Monaghan Civil Defence\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It teaches life saving skills to its members:<\/strong> First Aid, Rescue, Firefighting, Radiation Monitoring, Crisis Counselling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It forms teams of trained people to support communities:<\/strong> Stewarding Crowds, Searching for Missing People, Ambulance Duties.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When the weather strikes \u2013 we\u2019re on duty!<\/strong> Emergency Feeding, Sand Bagging, Evacuation, Pumping Flood Water<\/li>\n<li><strong>When the environment is threatened \u2013 we\u2019re there!<\/strong> Water Pollution, Clearing Oil from beaches, Finding Beached Cargo, Checking Radiation Levels<\/li>\n<li><strong>When a major emergency happens, we have equipment and trained people to work with the other services to save lives and treat the injured:<\/strong> Collapsed Buildings, Train Crashes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cares for people evacuated from their homes:<\/strong> Hurricanes, Overflowing Rivers<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prepares and trains to help protect from nuclear contamination:<\/strong> Nuclear power station accidents, Nuclear war planning, Satellite re-entry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Provides self development programmes for members in a co-operative, supportive environment:<\/strong> Team Leadership, Event Management, Public Speaking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members of Civil Defence wear the International Civil Defence Badge to show they are part of a worldwide network of committed people prepared to serve in their own country or overseas as part of practical disaster relief assistance.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"mt-lg-0\">Become A Civil Defence Volunteer<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mt-lg-0\"><em><strong>When we are needed we are there.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-lg-0\">If you are 18 years of age or over and would like to meet new people, learn new skills and be part of Monaghan Civil Defence.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to know more about becoming a Civil Defence Volunteer in County Monaghan:<\/p>\n<p><strong> Telephone: <a href=\"tel:003534781100\">047 81100<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Email:<strong> <a href=\"mailto:bmccreery@monaghancoco.ie\">bmccreery@monaghancoco.ie<\/a>\u00a0 <span class=\"cf0\">Civil Defence Officer<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Email :<strong> <a href=\"mailto:keith.murphy@monaghancoco.ie\">keith.murphy@monaghancoco.ie<\/a>\u00a0 Assistance Civil Defence Officer<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--EndFragment --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What We do\u00a0 Monaghan Civil Defence plays a very important role in assisting the front line services with trained personnel to respond to emergencies in addition to supporting and facilitating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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