#DFBrecruits Day 14
Thursday 22nd January

⚡ Lecture on electricity

🧯 Lecture on fire extinguishers

🚒 Hydrant to fire engine and ladders

📒 Major emergency lectures

#DFBrecruits Day 13
Wednesday 21st January

📒 HR with Dublin City Council

🪜 Hose aloft with ladders

🪢 Knot stations

🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Critical Incident Stress Management night for recruit families

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Tuesday 20th January

📒 Fire services Act lecture
🛠️ Small Gear
👩🏻‍🚒 Cutting away

🪜 Drills incorporated hose aloft

📒 Lecture on Fixed Installations

🚒 Hose hoisted aloft and ladder drills

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Monday 19th Jan - Day 11

Lectures on report writing ✍️

Locating the fire 🔥

Smoke travel 💨

Ladder Drills 🪜

Foam Drill 🫧

Suction 🪈

#DFBRecruits Day 10 - Friday 16th Jan

District Officers Inspection

Lecture on foam

Exam

Progress meeting with Syndicate Officer

Ladders and Hose drill

Team building drill

#DFBRecruits Day 9 - Thursday 15th Jan

Lectures on post incident hygiene

Practical session - Ladder drills

Lectures on building construction

Practical sessions - drill rotation

Building knowledge and understanding of equipment

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Day 8 - Wednesday 14th January

Inoculations 💉

Lectures 👨‍🏫

Combining hose and ladder drills 🪜

Using drill towers

Day 7 - Tuesday 13th of January

Lectures - Sprinkler Systems

Working with first aid hose reel

Ladders introduction - 10.5m and 13.5m

Expanding hose drills adding in ladders

Knots practice

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Day 6 - Monday 12th Jan

Introduction to our HR and CISM

Hose drills, foam drill and Suction drill from an open source.

Lectures on rope and cordage.

Practical knot stations such as figure of 8, clove hitch and bowline.

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Drill yard - How to prepare for a drill, introduction to hose including different methods of managing hose and making up/down.

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We were delighted to attend Drimnagh Castle for their careers fair today and spoke to many potential future #DFBRecruits.

Station Officer Paul Carolan and Firefighter/Paramedic Dan Byrne were on hand to answer the many questions asked about a career in Dublin Fire Brigade.

Day 2 - Tuesday 6th January

First Parade in uniform, thanks to our logistics team for ensuring all personnel had their issue.

First lectures, topics included hose, branches and stand pipes.

Manual handling course.

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Day One - 5th Jan 2026

Introduction and Course Opening by our Chief Fire Officer and Brigade Training Officer.

Split into Syndicates and meet with Syndicate Officers.

Individual, Syndicate and Class photos.

Clothing and PPE issued.

Parade positions issued.

Starting Monday, we will bring you a daily update on our #DFBRecruits and what they did on a particular day.

We dropped by their Muster Area today where their PPE was kept for inspection.

Recruit Class 1/2026 completed their first day as #DFBRecruits today.

#Throwback to this day in 2015 when ESC Class 1/2015 started in our training centre, all have since progressed tonFirefighter/Paramedics.

2nd #Throwback to Class 1/2003 who start their 24th year in DFB tomorrow.

Final preparations complete for Recruit Class 1/2026 who will join the ranks of Dublin Fire Brigade on Monday morning.

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We will be live on TikTok and Facebook from 1pm for our #DFBRecruits pass-out parade.

Follow @dubfirebrigade on either platform.

Thank you to everyone who came along to our #DFBRecruits car wash in aid of Oscars Kids today.

Thank you to our crews and our colleagues in the National Ambulance Service for dropping by.

Great to see Hayley, Darcy and Edie at our car wash.

Still plenty of time to stop by our training centre in Marino and support our #DFBRecruits car wash in aid of Oscars Kids

Whenever we do an Oscars Kids event, our friends in Firehouse Pizza are always there.

Our #DFBRecruits will be fueled by Firehouse Pizza today, so you can be sure your car will be spotless leaving our training centre.

Fully stocked for our #DFBRecruits car wash tomorrow.

Come along to our training centre between 10am and 4pm tomorrow and support our friends in Oscars Kids Ireland.

Join us next Satuday 8th of February from 10am at our training centre.

Our #DFBRecruits will be washing cars in aid of Oscars Kids.

A really worthwhile charity. You can learn more about what they do by giving them a follow or visiting their website www.oscarskids.ie

Join us next Satuday 8th of February from 10am at our training centre.

Our #DFBRecruits will be washing cars in aid of Oscars Kids.

A really worthwhile charity. You can learn more about what they do by giving them a follow or visiting their website www.oscarskids.ie

We need your old cars!

Have an old car you want to scrap?

Our #DFBRecruits need cars to use for their Road Traffic Collision Course

We can arrange pick up and disposal free of charge. If interested please call our training centre on 01-2224199 or see bit.ly/DFBcar

Our #DFBRecruits jumping into #DFB12Days

Last week our recruits did a Breathing Apparatus exercise using foam

We're officially launching our DFB 12 Days of Christmas where we will share advice on how you and your loved ones can stay safe over the Christmas period

Our #DFBRecruits visited the Capital Dock building as part of their tall and complex course this week

We were delighted to attend Maryfield College careers fair today

We spoke to a lot of interested students and hopefully some future #DFBRecruits

Road traffic collision training for our #DFBrecruits who will be based in Balbriggan and Skerries fire stations.

#DidYouKnow Last year we responded to over 2,400 road traffic collisions.

Our Retained Recruit Class had their ladder assessment today.

This ladder is the longest we carry on our fire engines and can extend to 13.5 meters (46 feet in old money).

It takes four Firefighters to pitch and extend the ladder.

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The cold weather has arrived ❄️

Our #DFBRecruits are keeping warm on their breathing apparatus course as they learn about fire behaviour 🔥