Locals in Ballincollig will demonstrate outside the town’s fire station later this week to highlight their concerns about the continued closure of the station.
Protestors will gather at 6:30pm on Friday to call on the City Council to reopen the station.
Efforts to recruit a retained fire service for the town have been unsuccessful, while firefighters from Anglesea Street have been demonstrating outside their own station twice a day before their shifts to highlight the situation which they have described as ‘dangerous’.
Cork City Councillors voted unanimously in favour of a motion calling for the reopening of the fire station with a full-time crew at last nights Council meeting .
Speaking to RedFM News, local resident Mags McKenna says the town feels like the Council are not listening to their concerns.
"If somebody has an emergency, for example a woman recently had a shed fire, and I'm not joking the fire was right behind the fire station here - all they had to do was stick a hose out the window and put out the fire.
"The fire crew had to come from Anglesea Street, 14 minutes it took to get out here.
"It's worrying, very very worrying. We just need to be covered.
"We feel very let down, and that no one is listening."
