After The Fire

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Eamonn writes:

Chimney stacks rise above the ashes of the row of houses in Millfield Manor, Newbridge, which were burned to the ground last night. A man has been arrested by gardai in relation to the incident.

Some residents, who did not wish to be identified, claimed that the local fire service was delayed unnecessarily by a blocked road which Kildare County Council has failed to open.

The main Kildare Fires Service HQ (pic 3) is in Newbridge, less than a kilometer from the scene of the fire. But the road between the two locations has been blocked (pic 4) by rubble and wooden barriers since the estate opened.

And according to local people, as a result, the fire tenders had to make a round trip of four kilometers to get to the scene yesterday afternoon.

Chief Fire Officer Celine Barrett, speaking to Broadsheet.ie, accepted that the blockage would cause a delay, but stated “It would only be a minute in the difference”. She said she did not believe the delay had any effect on the outcome of the fire, which started in one house and then spread to the rest, due mainly to strong winds. Ms Barrett said she understood it was the intention of the council to open the road in the near future.

Last Night: Meanwhile, In Newbridge


(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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31 thoughts on “After The Fire

  1. martco

    ehhh….is it just me or is there something missing from these pictures…like firewalls?

  2. medieval knievel

    potentially stupid question – are there no firewalls between those houses, or did they simply collapse?

    1. Dubloony

      Same thought here – no firebreaks at all? Even with a bit of a delay by the firebrigade, they went up astonishingly fast.
      But if an accelerant was used, might account for the extent of the damage.

      If I was in the neighboring terrace, I’d have the roof space checked out immediatly.
      Awful for the families concerned.

  3. Cian

    When I heard this described as “five houses damaged”, I wasn’t expecting quite that extent of the word “damaged”…

  4. Barry

    I was just checking the route or possible route the fire engine may have taken. It appears to be a 2.8Km trip as suppose to the 4k described. Using Google’s time it doubled the response time from 4 mins to 8mins approx.

    Via the rubble road from the station: 1.2Km
    https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/Newbridge+Fire+Station/53.1699481,-6.8054729/@53.1722201,-6.8049139,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x0:0x8f12d306c86b3b3a!2m2!1d-6.795535!2d53.175017!1m0!3e2

    Round trip: 2.8Km
    https://www.google.ie/maps/dir/Newbridge+Fire+Station/53.1699481,-6.8054729/@53.1731639,-6.8010076,16z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x0:0x8f12d306c86b3b3a!2m2!1d-6.795535!2d53.175017!1m0!3e0

    1. ahyeah

      “I was just checking the route or possible route the fire engine may have taken”

      Barry, you know that it’s not right to be doing that, don’t you? It’s not that it’s ‘wrong’, it’s just that you should be doing other things. Unless it’s your job to have checked the routes and distances, then well done. But it’s not your job, it it?

      1. Clampers Outside!

        Can we get Omar to do a map?

        Assuming we’re letting him come back home at all

        * mumbles incoherently *

        Probably couldn’t find his way home without a map anyway.

  5. Barry the Hatchet

    I know this is not the right reaction but.. those chimneys look like lanky frog.

  6. Kolmo

    Jaysus, were the houses made of paper? That is horrific, makes me worry about the safety of my owb apartment (built 2007) when I can hear the neighbours whispering or cutting cheese…

    1. ahyeah

      They should make houses out of whatever they make chimneys out of. I offer up that idea for free.

      1. ahjayzis

        +1

        Those chimneys are impressive.

        And while we’re at it, let’s start building planes out of whatever the black boxes are made of (Duritanium IIRC).

  7. dhaughton99

    Someone on with Joe said they were wooden houses with brickwork on the front.
    This scares the shite out of me now because I’m in a similar house built on behalf of the council which has no firewalls between each house.

      1. Rose

        Party walls can be timber framed and still form fire walls. It is designed to hold for an hour, long enough to allow escape…..still can’t guarantee for anything constructed in the boom

  8. Mr. T.

    This houses look very flimsily built. I wonder did a Kildare County Council Fire Officer sign off on those plans?

    I think some investigative journalism needs to be done here.

    But oh no, this is Ireland. It won’t happen. We’ll just carry on like forgetful little idiots.

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