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Two men die in Cork apartment block fire, two others rescued

The fire at Granary Court on St Jospehs’s Road happened at about 00.10am.

TWO MEN HAVE died after a fire in an apartment block in Mallow, Co. Cork late last night.

The fire at Granary Court on St Josephs’s Road happened at about 12.10 am. Gardaí arrived at the scene and rescued a man and a woman from the building.

Gardaí say that they then attempted to re-enter the building but were unable to do so because of excessive smoke.

Fire services then entered the building a short time later and the bodies of the two deceased men were discovered.

Both men were then removed to the morgue at Cork University Hospital where post-mortems will be carried out.

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    Mute stephen moynihan
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:16 AM

    Why weren’t the fire service called at the same time as the guards as they have the proper equipment to enter a building and rescue people. Just a thought.

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    Mute Martin O Connell
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:21 AM

    How do you know they weren’t?

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    Mute Mary Ryan
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:22 AM

    Stephen. Perhaps the Gardai were closer which is why they got there first and decided to help rather than wait for the fire engines to arrive. Not really fair to assume that the services let these poor people down.

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    Mute TheHassetthoff
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:23 AM

    Mallow is a part time station.

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    Mute Toxica Misanthrope
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    Mar 13th 2014, 9:33 AM

    Wasn’t there a fire there a few weeks ago too?

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    Mute tmwtbc
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:09 AM

    RTE is reporting that it was a man and woman that died. Sad news nonetheless.

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    Mute Derek O'Rourke
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:37 AM

    It seems to be fairly common around the country for gardai to get called to fires before the fire brigade. For whatever reason that is, maybe cost cutting!!

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    Mute Martin O Connell
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:43 AM

    That’s a stupid comment. Gardai get called at the same time as the fire services. Difference is Gardai have cars not big slow trucks full of water. Gardai are already dressed and ready to go where as the fire services have to suit up first.

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    Mute Fool Hunter
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:46 AM

    There are far more Gardai. Therefore the odds of them being closer are higher. It’s simple numbers.

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    Mute Adam Power
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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:52 AM

    It’s not a stupid comment, im aware of a number if incidents in my locality where people have rang and asked for the fire brigade and the gardai were sent first to check that the fire brigade were necessary. One of such incidents being a serious rta which was witnessed by a retired firefighter and called in by same, minutes wasted by call vetting and sending the gardai to a scene to go nothing but . . . . . Ring for fire and ambulance.

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    Mute Derek O'Rourke
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    Mar 13th 2014, 9:14 AM

    Martin I’m in the retained fire service, our local gardai have been called to fire incidents, like gorse fires car fires domestic fires etc. they then call us only if they can’t extinguish fire!

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    Mute Trevor Flanagan
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    Mar 13th 2014, 9:15 AM

    There is no such thing as call vetting in Munster as far as fire calls are concerned I should know I take the calls. Each area in Munster has a pre determined attendance set down by the chief fire officer of that local authority and depending on the type of incident the attendance is increased by the call taker. So there is no wait and see approach each call is dealt with and resources mobilised usually within 60 seconds.

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    Mute Adam Power
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    Mar 13th 2014, 9:33 AM

    And in certain areas that pre determined attendance was that oil spills were not up be dealt with by fire brigade and RTAs only to be attended if a person or persons are trapped in a vehicle.

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    Mute Trevor Flanagan
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    Mar 13th 2014, 10:19 AM

    As I said I can only speak for the Munster area all RTA’s are responded to when the fire service are requested by the Gardai ambulance or members of the public if there are persons reported or not if we don’t get the call obviously we can’t respond

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    Mar 13th 2014, 10:26 AM

    That is vetting but before it gets to you..a caller wants help and you look at a list to see if you can give her help!!!how many times to do have to ring a senior officer to get permission to let the fire crew out!!!and by the way they make most of their decisions when not even at the scene..how can you risk assess from a bed not to mention that most senior fire officers have never been firefighters …the system in this country lets senior management tell firefighters what to do on the side of the road when they have actually never done the job themselves….it’s like the captain of a ship never been a sailor !!!!

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    Mar 13th 2014, 10:53 AM

    I agree with your point about senior officers but the fact is that if it’s a life at risk call or has the potential to become a life at risk the fire brigade is mobilised regardless of senior officer standing orders there are certain situations in certain areas that require senior officer consultation before mobilisation but never when there is a danger to life. Just like firefighters emergency control operators are in a ranked based structure so have to follow the orders of superiors whether they agree with them or not

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    Mar 13th 2014, 11:58 AM

    Your correct Adam…people in this country still call the gardai when they have a fire ….

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    Mar 13th 2014, 12:01 PM

    Just push the button Trevor …we are all numbers at the end of the day….

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    Mar 13th 2014, 1:39 PM

    Gardai are not already dressed to enter a fire

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    Mar 13th 2014, 1:51 PM

    I never said they were. But we are already dressed to do our job.

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    Mar 13th 2014, 2:20 PM

    Assuming you are a Member of AGS?
    It is not the job of Gardai to enter a fire

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    Mar 13th 2014, 8:50 AM

    RIP to the ones who lost their lives, very sad.

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    Mar 13th 2014, 11:53 AM

    The gaurds were driving around that area all night and the garda station is close to were it happened they were at them appartments earler that night aswell for another incident. So if they were on the scene first thats why

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    Mute Richelle Hartnett
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    Mar 13th 2014, 10:17 AM

    Very sad thats the second fire in the same area in the last 2 weeks. About 2 hrs before that that i seen an ambulances and gaurds there aswell. R.i.p

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