A Sligo County Councillor and Mayor of the Borough District of Sligo has congratulated the Sligo Fire Brigade on its rate of response for being the fastest in the country. Speaking at the monthly meeting of Sligo Co Council, Cllr Declan Bree said that according to the performance indicators in the National Oversight and Audit Commission report for 2020 the average time it took the Sligo Fire Service to mobilise fire brigades to fires was three minutes 17 seconds. The 2021 report indicates that the mobilisation time was three minutes 46 seconds, which continue to be the fastest response times in the country.