Riverside Fire

Vodkat · 12-03-2011 11:11pm

Hope no one was injured, and everyone is safe! My bf rang me to tell me he saw it! What time did it start I wonder? Is it the area the new cuniffee electric is in?

faw1tytowers · 12-03-2011 11:15pm

Vodkat wrote: »

Hope no one was injured, and everyone is safe! My bf rang me to tell me he saw it! What time did it start I wonder? Is it the area the new cuniffee electric is in?

Believed to have about 8pm yes it is all the units behind Cunniffes and 'hearsay' says it has reached cunniffes.

faw1tytowers · 12-03-2011 11:25pm

'hearsay' started in liquidation shop (advertiser unconfirmed report) units jsut arrived from clare and talk of hydralic unit coming from Shannon, other brigades on route from gort etc

A1 Fiend · 12-03-2011 11:28pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhWtzV1OkoM

mink_man · 12-03-2011 11:31pm

hope they get it under control soon.

Monasette · 12-03-2011 11:42pm

It looks like the fire brigade have it under control. I don't know what units have been damaged but the ones facing the road appear safe now.

mink_man · 12-03-2011 11:44pm

anyone wanna send a link to google street view of the buuldings it burned, i see cara office and tommy varden, but there's 3 buildings facing the road, is this where it started?

mink_man · 12-03-2011 11:54pm

aunt was at a kickboxing championship and she said they just announced it where they were and the owner of the black dragon kickboxing club was there, it was burnt down afaik.

WesternNight · 12-03-2011 11:57pm

God that's horrific

faw1tytowers · 12-03-2011 11:59pm

This is old as arramount is now westlink motors and the office is liquidation store.
http://maps.google.ie/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=riverside+industrial+estate,+tuam+road,+galway&aq=&sll=52.871927,-9.015999&sspn=0.058128,0.154324&ie=UTF8&hq=riverside+industrial+estate,&hnear=Tuam+Rd,+Galway,+County+Galway&ll=53.289301,-9.025843&spn=0,0.002411&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.289174,-9.025738&panoid=74kpiT50xCksxREBwPfI_g&cbp=12,126.91,,0,1.05

hairyfairy00 · 13-03-2011 12:01am

More video of fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c87gYiCn_M

desaparecidos · 13-03-2011 12:02am

mink_man wrote: »

anyone wanna send a link to google street view of the buuldings it burned, i see cara office and tommy varden, but there's 3 buildings facing the road, is this where it started?

http://maps.google.ie/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.288919,-9.02555&spn=0.001408,0.004128&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.288816,-9.025474&panoid=0lClSdBE3M7kz3-Qv5Ak5g&cbp=12,19.97,,0,1.55

I think anything above that is safe.

There's no more flames visible, but a plum of smoke coming from the centre of the warehouses.

faw1tytowers · 13-03-2011 12:03am

mink_man wrote: »

anyone wanna send a link to google street view of the buuldings it burned, i see cara office and tommy varden, but there's 3 buildings facing the road, is this where it started?

posted link, cara is no longer there that is the liquidation shop that it is believed to have started in and arramount is now westlink motors garage. only moved in 4 months ago both of these buisnesses. Top of hill near road is now cunniffes electric too. The others are the same.

hairyfairy00 · 13-03-2011 12:05am

Cuniffe's warehouse is gone, shop is full of smoke, that's from the horses mouth!

jd007 · 13-03-2011 12:10am

Hope it doesn't spread to residential areas

faw1tytowers · 13-03-2011 12:52am

Fire under control, cases managed to get away with any damage.

Dan_Solo · 13-03-2011 12:53am

faw1tytowers wrote: »

Fire under control, cases managed to get away with any damage.

Is that the same as "put out"?

faw1tytowers · 13-03-2011 12:59am

Dan_Solo wrote: »

Is that the same as "put out"?

no, brigades will be there till early hours.

Dan_Solo · 13-03-2011 1:02am

faw1tytowers wrote: »

no, brigades will be there till early hours.

Sometimes "under control" just mean it's contained but everything will be cinders by the time it's burned itself out.

irisheddie85 · 13-03-2011 1:02am

Drove by about 20 minutes ago.
Still a lot of smoke coming from it but looks like the fire brigade have stopped it from spreading and getting the buildings at the front

jd007 · 13-03-2011 1:03am

Fair play to the Galway Advertiser on Facebook, only place I could get any news on it

faw1tytowers · 13-03-2011 1:11am

5 buildings destroyed - Westlink motors, cara supplies (which I earlier said was no longer there, but apparently is) Liquidation Shop, Black dragon kick boxing gym, Tommy Vardens. Cuniffes Electrical and Cases Wine as well as a number of other units smoke damaged.

Bummer1234 · 13-03-2011 1:21am

jd007 wrote: »

Fair play to the Galway Advertiser on Facebook, only place I could get any news on it

100% agree with you,Fair play to them, Devastated to all who have been affected

WesternNight · 13-03-2011 1:22am

faw1tytowers wrote: »

5 buildings destroyed - Westlink motors, cara supplies (which I earlier said was no longer there, but apparently is) Liquidation Shop, Black dragon kick boxing gym, Tommy Vardens. Cuniffes Electrical and Cases Wine as well as a number of other units smoke damaged.

They updated again listing Varden's as one of those with just smoke damage..