Training in the extrication of casualties from crashed cars.The tender visible is now out of service.

Children from the Chernobyl area being taken on a boat trip on the Grand Canal, Vicarstown, 2001.

Here a respirator is being used on a training exercise while examining a casualty. The absence of other NBC gear suggests it is being used to protect the wearer from smoke.

This picture shows a First Aid Post set up at Heywood Community School during a large event there.

(A Daniel O' Donnell concert!)

AFS training, Durrow. Picture taken around 1994.

Members of Laois Civil Defence meeting President McAleese, Aras an Uachtarain 2000.

T/O Alcorne doing a Boris Yeltsin impression, Baldonnel 2000.

Just hangin' around.

Exercise which simulated a plane crash. An unconscious casualty with possible spinal injury is being removed to the Ambulance Loading Point.

Members of No.1 Base using a Troll stretcher, Lahinch, 1999.

Members of No.3 Base on a night exercise, 1999.

F/O Seamus Clancy topping up a disinfectant mat during the Foot & Mouth disesase alert of 2001.

In case anyone was wondering what the beacons on the Hilux look like, here they are.