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Huge Amount Of Black Smoke Over Dublin

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17-04-2016 7:36pm

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There seems to be a sizeable fire somewhere in South Dublin, just driving up Cork Street in Dublin 8 and I can see a huge amount of black smoke ......... anybody any info/details?

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#2 17-04-2016 7:40pm
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Edna is now supreme overlord.

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#3 17-04-2016 7:40pm
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Can see if from tallaght looks like it's near the airport

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#4 17-04-2016 7:41pm
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AH mod: move to Dublin City. Please read their charter:
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#5 17-04-2016 7:41pm
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Power is gone in most of West Dublin any connection

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#6 17-04-2016 7:41pm
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There was a camper van on fire on the M50 earlier.

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#7 17-04-2016 7:43pm
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Can see it from house in Portmarnock, is west Dublin anyway by the looks. Doesn't look massive

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#8 17-04-2016 7:44pm
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Gatling wrote: »

Can see if from tallaght looks like it's near the airport

I'm seeing it from the Dublin 8 area, you can see it from Dublin 24 and believe it's coming from way over on the Northside ........... it must be a f*cking huge fire!! :eek:

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#9 17-04-2016 7:45pm
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Major Fire reported at ESB substation in Inchicore.

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#10 17-04-2016 7:47pm
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EazyD wrote: »

Major Fire reported at ESB substation in Inchicore.

Inchicore looks about right from where I am ..........

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#11 17-04-2016 7:48pm
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MadDog76 wrote: »

Inchicore looks about right from where I am ..........

https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewtm125/status/721769337384779777/video/1

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I'm in D7. Looks like its over towards inchicore direction. I can only see smoke.

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#13 17-04-2016 7:49pm
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I can see it from D8 and it's SW of here....

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#14 17-04-2016 7:49pm
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pablo128 wrote: »

There was a camper van on fire on the M50 earlier.

I'd say that's well out by now. It was on the N4 close to the m50 junction- saw it when I was driving out of town earlier. Hope everyone got out okay- it looked bad.

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#15 17-04-2016 7:51pm
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http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/emergency-services-rush-to-scene-of-fire-after-loud-explosion-heard-in-south-dublin-34634952.html

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AtomicHorror wrote: »

I'd say that's well out by now. It was on the N4 close to the m50 junction- saw it when I was driving out of town earlier. Hope everyone got out okay- it looked bad.

It was there at 330 and gone off the scene at 6.

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#17 17-04-2016 7:55pm
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God I hope no one got hurt. That looks awful!!!

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#18 17-04-2016 7:56pm
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Howjoe1 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/emergency-services-rush-to-scene-of-fire-after-loud-explosion-heard-in-south-dublin-34634952.html

Trinity boat club on Infirmary Road???

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#19 17-04-2016 7:57pm
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Doesn't seem as bad now from here and we just lost power

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#20 17-04-2016 7:59pm
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That's a big fire, power will be out for a bit as a result of that

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#21 17-04-2016 7:59pm
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Emergency services responding to major blaze in Dublin http://jrnl.ie/2720771

I could see it exploding from the back window. It's big.

Apparently surrounding areas being evacuated.

Stay safe everyone especially our tireless dfb heroes

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#22 17-04-2016 8:04pm
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No power till eight tomorrow morning

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#23 17-04-2016 8:05pm
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SEPT 23 1989 wrote:

No power till eight tomorrow morning

Source? And for all affected areas?

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#24 17-04-2016 8:12pm
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Power just back here

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Back here was gone about for about half an hour

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#26 17-04-2016 8:30pm
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No outages in Dublin at the moment according to the Power Check app

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#27 17-04-2016 8:36pm
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jack presley wrote: »

No outages in Dublin at the moment according to the Power Check app

Bloody useless. Couldn't get onto it at all when the power was off, SSL certificate error on their end

Tried checking the Dublin County West forum (where the power cuts were, although Inchicore is inside the city council area) but when it eventually loaded there was nothing there, tried to start a thread but it just timed out. Tens of thousands of people with no electricity all hitting 3G at the same time in the same area I suppose.

The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.

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#28 17-04-2016 8:41pm
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I live a mile from the square and lost power for about ten minutes around 8.20

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#29 17-04-2016 9:18pm
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ScouseMouse wrote: »

I live a mile from the square and lost power for about ten minutes around 8.20

Hi neighbour.:D

Yeah I'm not too far from the square either. We lost power at the same time.

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#30 17-04-2016 10:12pm
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We lost power out in Tallaght because of it. Only for about 15 minutes

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#31 18-04-2016 8:06pm
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http://www.sundayworld.com/news/crimedesk/thieves-caused-10m-blaze-at-dublin-esb-substation-breaking

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