Kildare County Council’s Emergency Control Centre was first established as a Fire Brigade Control room in the new Central Fire Station, Newbridge which opened in May 1990. Before this, any emergency fire calls for county Kildare were put through to the local fire station or the Station Officers home. At that time when a call was received at the officers home, whoever was at home took the call and would activate the alerter system. In the beginning, there were just four control room operators to cover the shifts between them, and the Control Room, as it was known then, dealt with just six fire station areas:

Newbridge, Naas, Athy, Maynooth, Monasterevin and Leixlip

During this time the control room also acted as an occasional after hours contact for Kildare County Council's Engineering services, dealing with queries such as Roads, Water and Sewerage. In October 1995, the control room expanded and took on the responsibility of receiving Fire calls for County Carlow, followed a year later with call-outs for County Offaly.

By this time, the control room developed into a regional fire control, dealing with a total of nineteen Fire Station areas, including the Defence Forces Fire Brigade at the Curragh. As time passed, the control room got busier, taking on additional after hours engineering calls from other Local Authorities. It now deals with Fire Brigade calls for counties Kildare and Offaly. It also deals with out of hours calls for Kildare, Carlow, Offaly, Longford and Kilkenny County Councils. The Fire Control Room established in 1990 has developed into today’s Emergency Control Centre, operating on a 24 hours by eight Emergency Control Operators.