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Fire/smoke over towards Baldonnel or Grange Castle yesterday?

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  • 09-09-2013 8:10am
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    milltown
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    Plumes of black smoke coming from Grange Castle or Baldonnel direction (looking from Lucan direction) yesterday afternoon and even visible still this morning. My first thoughts were the travellers burning a caravan but I wouldn't expect that to keep burning through the night.

    Anybody hear or see what's going on?
    Can't find anything on any news sites.


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    josh59
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    No idea but William Lavelle the local councilor put two photos of this up on Facebook last night and a guy in work this morning said they could see the smoke from near Clonee - must have been a big one.

    The power in our house was flickering intermittently for a few hours last night - wonder was this related to the fire - e.g. interfering with the power lines.


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    RunDMC
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    Same problem with the lights flickering last night. We could see the fire, it seemed to be between the ORR and the Newcastle Road, at the canal or railway line.

    R


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    Fresh Pots
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    Heard it was a tractor set on fire up near the old bridge or somewhere in that area.


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    Flunch
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    William Lavelle has also said on his facebook that it was a pile of old tyres left on council land which had been set alight.


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    cerastes
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    TheTechGuy wrote: »
    Heard it was a tractor set on fire up near the old bridge or somewhere in that area.

    Just saw this thread now and remember seeing that, I dont think it was just a tractor.
    Flunch wrote: »
    William Lavelle has also said on his facebook that it was a pile of old tyres left on council land which had been set alight.

    Given by the black acrid looking plume of smoke I saw, Id say there was definitely something like tyres or something synthetic opposed to wood.

    Our lights were flickering for that evening too, so I guessed it might have been a transformer that was burning and the effect on the grid (imbalance of in the load?) was causing the flickering later on.


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