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Fire Fighting
Galway County Council is the fire authority responsible for fire fighting, fire prevention, rescue and other services in Galway city and county. Fire fighting operations in a small area in the north and north-east of the county are carried out by the Mayo and Roscommon fire authorities by arrangement. Brigades from Galway respond to incidents in certain parts of County Roscommon, North Tipperary and Clare in a similar fashion. Such arrangements come about as a result of positioning of fire stations relative to areas of population. The fire service headquarters is located at Galway city fire station and all the senior fire officers are based there. There are a total of ten fire stations located in population centres around the county - Galway city, Athenry, Loughrea, Tuam, Ballinasloe, Mountbellew, Portumna, Gort, Clifden and Kilronan. All these fire stations have fire appliances, crash rescue and other special equipment necessary to deal with incidents within their areas.