The development will comprise of the following:
A Swift Water Rescue Training (SWRT) Centre. This will be based around a floodable street with a mock rescue village. It will be used by Dublin Fire Brigade, other emergency services and certain local authority staff. It is essential, given the increase in severe weather flooding events that local authority and other emergency service staff can train for these events in controlled conditions with no water quality issues. The SWRT Centre is based on a recently commissioned ‘
state of the art’ facility developed at the New York State’s Preparedness Training Centre in Utica, New York.