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Updated at 3.50pm
A BLOCK OF flats in Tallaght were evacuated last night after smoke was seen billowing out of the basement of the building by a passing ambulance.
Dublin Fire Brigade responded to reports of a fire at Bancroft Hall received at 11.09pm last night. When firefighters arrived at the scene they found a gas main and a number of vehicles in the underground car park of the building “well alight”. Six pumps were sent to the area, as well as a command support unit, a ladder and an ambulance.
Several people were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation, and it’s understood that some residents will have to be rehoused because of the incident.
A spokesperson for Dublin Fire Brigade said that one of the service’s ambulances was returning from a serious call in the area when they spotted the smoke “billowing” from the building, and reported it before the first civilian call.
He said that this act “possibly saved lives” as smoke had passed through the entire building when firefighters arrived on scene.
It’s understood that a possible gas leak is among the suspected causes of the fire.
An emergency response fitter and crew from Gas Networks Ireland attended the scene in response to a call from the fire brigade.
Gardaí are currently at the scene and investigations are ongoing.
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Headline states apartments, then they become a block of flats in Tallaght.
I wonder if it was a more upmarket area would they remain apartments in the article?
@Mia: you keep wondering.
@Mia: they used to have eyesore 70s flats in avonbeg in tallaght. Real social problems with drugs, unemployment and joyriding. In the 90s, the council put some lead on the top floor to make it look like a roof, and overnight, they became “apartments”. Never really knew the nomenclature, but apparently it’s about perception.
@Gulliver Foyle: live up there myself. Heard it was mental alright. Grand now though. Don’t hear a peep out of them.
Why did it take a chance ambulance to raise the alarm? I thought that was the purpose of a smoke alarm
Headline reads like the ambulance itself was on fire.
@Walt Jabsco: I would also presume that it was the paramedic that saw the smoke & not the ambulance!
@Walt Jabsco: I didn’t get the impression you got at all.
@John Hazelnut:
Headline has been changed now.
Great.. more people wit
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