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SIX UNITS OF the Dublin Fire Brigade were called to a major fire incident at an industrial estate in Dublin overnight.
A factory unit used by PC Kitchens at the Malahide Road Industrial Estate, just beside Darndale, went up in flames and quickly escalated to a six pump fire incident, said the Dublin Fire Brigade.
No one was in the building at the time and no one is reported to be injured.
Still ongoing
The fire is still ongoing and one unit of the fire service is still at the scene.
A spokesperson for the fire services said they received the call at 10.13pm last night and by 10.20pm they were at the scene. At that point the fire was classed as a four pump fire.
A water tank was called to the scene shortly after due to a shortage in water mains pressure.
At 10.50pm, five fire brigade units were at the scene and an engineer from the dangerous buildings department attended the scene to inspect the structure, which a spokesperson said was standard for that size of a fire.
Six pump fire
At 11.15pm, the blaze had reached its peak and six units of the Dublin Fire Brigade were battling the blaze. A senior fire officer from Tara Street Fire Station was then called to the scene to inspect the fire.
The spokesperson said they were battling the blaze from outside of the building only, as the fire officers could not gain access inside due to the scale of the fire.
By 4am this morning, the fire was petering out and only two units were at the scene. At 6am this morning, one unit of the fire brigade was at the scene. The spokesperson said that with a blaze of this size it is standard for at least one unit of the fire brigade to remain at the scene for at least 24 hours as pockets can reignite.
Gardaí were in attendance at the scene also.
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@Alex Falcone: at the rate this story is getting milked, it will be a trilogy
It’s a sad state of affairs when an ordinary good deed gets such media coverage not once but twice. Talk about flogging a story to death.
@Pablo: “and what about the tiresome cynicism back home by Some?”
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Tyresome I see what you did there
It’s been a GoodYear for these type of stories
Deadly act of kindness completely overcooked and personified by the self praising “we’re better than England” bollox that came with it.
Fairplay lads
Tbh, id like to think if most ordinary joes had come across elderly people trying to change their flat tyre, wouldnt hesitate to help out.
Now fair play but its not exactly jumping on top of a suicide bomber to muffle the bomb blast to save everyone.
More than a bit cringing to bring english fans into it? Best fans in the world, did you know that?
Sat in key West with an Irish family and to be fair it’s a pleasure to be Irish.. They are manic but fun and friendly plus living life.. Proud to be Irish
This is more self congratulatory than the IFTAs.
The difference between Irish and English fans – nobody scapegoats Irish fans for violence even when they suffer uprovoked attacks.
Hardly unprovoked, English fans have a history of violence at these tournaments, the last time they were in Marseille they attacked the locals so violence was predicted. I’d have more respect for them if they took their beatings on the chin but their still shocked and amazed at how a team like Iceland managed to beat them on the pitch and still crying about been beat at their own game of hooliganism off it.
Then you clearly aren’t familiar with how hooliganism is dealt with here. Our ‘ultras’ are all known to the authorities and typically have their passports confiscated before major tournaments. The fans who were left in comas after being beaten with chairs and iron bars were precisely that – ordinary fans. NOT hooligans. Neither were the fans who were attacked by local French gangs in Marseilles – you might react badly too if some local yobs attacked you purely for wearing Ireland shirts. It’s also pretty clear the French authorites were extremely slapdash in their handling – remind us who allowed Russian ultras to smuggle a FLARE GUN into a packed stadium?
Harry… The fact that hooliganism is dealt with says it all…
Does it though? If the UK spent a load of money and effort into dealing with England’s hooliganism, it says more about other countries’ willingness to attribute blame even when the actual evidence suggests England fans were not acting without provocation.
Provocation? They don’t have to fight you know…. They are generally grown adults….
As I said to Phil, think (realistically, mind) how you might react if some local yobbos start attacking you as you were sat outside having a drink with friends/family. I’m sure it’s mighty comfy preaching from that high horse of yours.
I don’t know about you but I’d do a runner
I thought the country was broke ?
We really need to grow up, in this country, all this need to be liked and thought of as `great craic`, and the `best fans in the world`, borefest at best, smacks of inferiority complex and narcissistic navel gazing. Newsflash; The rest of the world do go about thinking and talking about ` how great the Irish soccer fans are because they changed someone`s tyre`. People have important and interesting things to think about.
‘We all had a drink in our hand’ – how typically Irish and further driving home the stereotype….
The behavior of our fans does more for tourism to this country than money ever could.
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