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LAST UPDATE | 10 Jan 2021
FIRE SERVICE CREWS are still active at the site of a fire that broke out at Cork Port yesterday morning, with two additional crews having joined the operation earlier today.
Crews from Crosshaven and Carrigaline were joined by crews from Midleton and Cobh Fire Station to manage the aftermath of the fire.
The crews have been “exposing, dampening and extinguishing any hot spots within the storage facility”, according to Cork County Council.
“This natural, organic animal feed will continue to smoulder until it is removed from its current position.”
The fire broke out yesterday morning at R and H Hall in Ringaskiddy, where fire service crews were called to handle the blaze.
Cork County Council said this evening that it can “confirm that crews will remain on site throughout the night”.
In an earlier statement today, the council said that a crew from Kinsale Fire Station were at the site during the night.
“Crews from Carrigaline and Crosshaven now continue to expose and extinguish any hot spots that may exist within the storage facility,” the council said earlier.
“Due to the nature of this incident, this will be an ongoing process and Cork County Council would again like to reassure members of the public that all operations are being undertaken in a highly controlled manner.”
Cork County Council said that there “may be further fresh smoke from any flare up as fire service crews remove panels from the structures to access hot spots”.
“The material involved remains unchanged and is a natural, organic animal feed,” the council said.
“Fire Crews will remain on site until this operation is fully complete.”
The fire broke out yesterday at theR&H Hall grain store for animal feed on the Ringaskiddy Deepwater Berth, at an animal feed storage facility near the Port of Cork.
R&H Hall apologised to “local residents, neighbouring businesses and our customers for any inconvenience caused by the incident”.
“We would like to thank the emergency services and the Port of Cork team for their quick response and ongoing management of the incident,” it said.
Local residents were advised to stay indoors while the smoke was spreading and to keep windows and doors closed.
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I wonder would it Pass an NCT
Why it won’t be comming here….?might as well ask if its taxed
Would you really want the guys in NCT test centres putting it up on ramp
The test does not harm a car.the worst is the engine been reved highly for the emissions apart from that the test is a doddle a bit of a shake while they test the links/joints/bushes/shocks etc.
Doubt it would have to do a NCT it would be a vintage by now.
@henry,that’s right anything pre 1980 is test exempt and 52e to tax.I bring in the odd classic from the UK.easy to find a decent one and they require all vehicles to have a mot so road worthy and peace of mind its good.its a very very cheap way of having a second vehicle
Funny how it looks like the car Homer Simpsons designed.
The Homer!
It was going for only 2 million til they found a pair of Catwoman’s knickers under the passenger seat.
Holy handbags that’s alot of wonga ..poow dang wallop
I hear some joker bought it
Yeah he was two faced though
Speed bumps will be the bane of his existence now…
I see what u did there :p
Who didn’t love this car as a kid?! In fairness my favourite batmobile was the one Michael Keaton drove.
He bought it for a dollar and spent 9k dollars doing it up. Tidy profit.
According to the Independent George Barris had a mere 15 days and $15,000 to transform the vehicle into what it was. Also peculiarly the indpendent originally today said that the buyer was a 56 year old Mr Champagne revealed through Reuters, but later say that the winning bidder had not been disclosed! Odd
That’s not the original car! The original car was black with a kinda greyish whietish pinstripe. I saw it on tv when I was about 6 or 7.
That must be the one they used in the movie. That one had the orange stripe ok.
I read up about this a few years ago – apparently it was the same car but the paint job was originally a lot less dramatic, more matt-black, they repainted it the glossy block and red early on so as to look more impressive. Or so I read then…
Nikolas , I bow to your knowledge but I was really alluding to the fact that we only had monochrome TV when I was seven! But seriously though when I went to see Batman the movie I couldn’t get over the colours of things that I knew so well from the TV series. The orange stripe, the blue tinge to the batcape (which meant that the one my gran made for me wasn’t as authentic as I thought :( )
Well Bruce Wayne was stuck for a few bob seeing as Catwoman got his prints who then gave them to your man who gave them to Bane who made a mess in the stock exchange. I saw it in a movie so it must be true…
Holy nama batman
Holy God Robin!
Hold on one sec,so a car ten years old needs an annual nct but a car 30 years old cause its “vintage” doesnt?have I understood that correctly?
Yes
That can’t be right,so I can buy a banger from 1970 or so that’s falling to bits without an nct but my 99 bora needs an nct to be roadworthy?ah here leaaaavvvee irrrrrr ouhhhhh,that nct is a scam pure and simple
You’ll probably find it’s cheaper to run a 99 car than one from 1970, even with the NCT, when you consider the cost and rarity of replacement parts and how unreliable such an old car would be. But you’d have the satisfaction of laughing at the rest if us who fell for the scam.
There were eight of them I think, and three still survive. This must be one of the three.
That the first one nikolas
Is it? They made the body of the car by adapting the Futura, then made a mold of the body and created eight fibre-glass bodies, and then cars. They tended to get wrecked during filming. They all can be justifiably called original. It’s a lovely idea that there was “one” batmobile, but it’d be almost impossible to prove that this is the “original” original, given that all 8 were made from and repaired with stock parts and empty paint cans that were lying around the workshop.
Holy utility belt
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