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Fire officer’s appeal as careless parking hampers rescue effort

MOTORISTS have been urged to avoid parking on narrow access roads to amenities in the Killaloe area after the local fire service encountered difficulties during a recent rescue. Killaloe Fire and Rescue Service was tasked on a call to provide assistance to an injured person on the trail up to Moylussa recently. There have been occasions when firemen would be requested to bring a casualty out of the woods into the ambulance. In this case, the casualty was near the road on the way up to the mountain. Due to careless parking, firemen were not able to use their fire engine and had to instead use their fire truck. The ambulance was just about able to squeeze through with very little to spare. Killaloe Station Officer, Graham Tuohy recalled the difficulties local firemen encountered. “It wasn’t ideal. It was the upper car park where we encountered the difficulty. As luck would have it the van went up first and they …

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