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AN EXPLOSION BLASTED through a house on Sullivan Street in Dublin this evening, leaving one man in serious condition with severe burns.
Emergency services are currently attending the scene of the what is thought to have been a gas explosion, which caused extensive damage to the house.
The adjacent Infirmary Road has been closed to facilitate Dublin Fire Brigade which has six units in attendance.
A 58-year-old man was rescued from the house with severe burns. He was taken to the Mater Hospital and is understood to be in critical condition. There were no other injuries reported in the incident.
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Jeaysus!
Hope he is ok poor man. Thank god no one killed. That is some serious looking damage and he is wow lucky to be alive as is the fact no one was killed.
Blew a hole in the wall, authorities are now looking into it.
Hope he’s ok!
That’s insane, thankfully he will be ok.
How do you know? Says he’s in a critical condition.
We live on Sullivan Street and we were home when the explosion happened. It was easily the most terrifying and surreal experience, walking out of our house to see such devastation. Very sad to see the adjacent house knocked down too and it looks like another will go also. Thankfully no one else was injured, usually there would be kids playing on the road. Amazing really.
The IT are also running with it
I repeat what I said above – it was a dumbass comment I made and I hope if the family or neighbours affected read these threads down the line they don’t take umbrage to my stupid throwaway comments above.
@Michelle
” thought to have been a gas explosion, which caused extensive damage to the house.”
Lol!
That gave me a laugh :)
‘Extensive damage’??
The house has been demolished!
Actually, I read saw the pictures and made the comment above before reading the story. Apologies, it was very insensitive considering a man has been badly injured.
No but you are right. Extensive damage was caused to neighbouring houses and the one in question hasn’t got a single wall left standing.
I was a few houses down when the explosion happened. I took the photo at the top of the article. The house itself is pretty much demolished and one of the houses beside it had to be knocked down afterwards. The street is still covered in glass. My neighbours have kids that play on the street. It doesn’t bear thinking about how much worse this could have been had they been out when this happened.
The indo are running with it too.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gas-explosion-blows-roof-off-house-in-dublin-30320574.html
Again, I’m sorry for making such a crass, thoughtless comment.
That was some blast.. hope he’s ok.
With a blast like that there must be damage to adjacent buildings.
If ever I saw a campaign advert for the true power of gas destruction – it’s the above photo. It’s unreal.
For burns he should be in St James?
National burns unit is based there.
Probably Jarlath, but they’re only “sever” burns (AKA “serve” burns), hope this helps.
People are normally stabilised in their local hospital and then transferred to the burns unit, not typically critical patients there
Son, light that candle in the hall, would ya please. Ok Ma. …………KABOOOOOOOOOOM. Holy @#$%.
A miracle no one else was hurt.
gardai uncover another blow house
So he had sever burns and serve burns eh…?
Old pipes ???????????
Not with gas.. Everything is scrutinised these days with gas lines.. And everything has to be certified so I wouldn’t like to be the last person who done work on that house.. He’s the first one there calling..
They will demolish the house for reasons of Health and Safety like they did in Blackrock a few years ago. I hope they don’t destroy the evidance at the same time.
How would they avoid doing that, exactly?
Infirmary road is open again, the house itself was mid terrace so was pretty much entirely destroyed.
They have now demolished the end of terrace wall down to the top of the ground floor wall.
I thought the end of terrace looked ok in the photos, but it would appear not.
The blast was certainly gigantic I live just around the corner and everyone was out their door in seconds trying to figure out where and what the blast was.
Was playing cricket in Phoenix park when I heard this blast, was a deep ios one !
The Industry is very concerned about safety. Two week ago hundreds of gas installers protested outside the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) offices in Tallaght. http://www.aphci.ie/hundreds-support-protest-outside-cer-offices/ They are appalled by the tolerance the CER and RGII have of illegal operators. They have been pushing the regulator to make the householder responsible for employing illegal operators. This a good example of what could happen to neighbours if you are using illegal operators. Imagine if this had been an apartment block, an explosion of this nature is on the way and people are going to be killed. Gas installers are planning another protest outside Leinster House on the 18th June.
Gas is safe and clean!!!!
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