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Civil Defence is a stautory nationwide organisation of some 6,000 volunteers who are trained to help there community at all times,but particularly in times of emergency.Local Civil Defence is organised within each local authority area under the control of Civil defence Officers. Kerry Civil Defence are involved in activities such as
Background to civil Defence The voluntary air-raid protection organisation was disbanded at the end of the second world war.During the ensuing cold war period the goverment determined that a civil defence organisation trained to cope with a nucleur situation was a necessity.A major disaster would require an organisation skilled in first aid, fire fighting, rescue, evacuation, welfare, communications and mobilisation capability. As a result,Civil Defence was set up in 1950 to be part of the national defence structure as the neccesary civil response to potential hazards which might arise in a war situation .the organisation was designed to undertake non-combatant activities and measures to afford defence against ,or mitigate the effects on persons and property,of an attack on the state,or of hazards otherwise arising during a time of war or emergency,such as from radioactive fallout or biological or chemical warfare.
Services are operated as locally as possible but advanced training is done at Headquaters
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