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Had to call the fire-brigade today...

  • 23-08-2010 9:02pm
    #1
    tommy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭


    Was coming down O'Donovan's road on the No.5. We were passing the houses that seem to constantly be undergoing renovation just before you come to the bridge (opposite the staff car park), and next thing I see one of those portable generators in flames in the front of the garden.

    So basically I want a medal for my good deed ;)

    Seriously though, the house could easily have gone up, and nobody appeared to have noticed it! Anyone see the aftermath? I got great satisfaction watching the fire engine I had called whip past me down on Washington St., very quick response time in fairness.


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  • #2
    Aodan83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    distinction_medal.jpg
    Hows that? I think its pretty good, distinction through service!
    That's mental though, how the hell did that thing go up. Pretty lucky you caught it really like.


  • #3
    tommy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭tommy21


    Haha thanks for the medal :D

    My guess would be the petrol fumes ignited in the heat or maybe it just overheated - would be interested to know how it panned out if anyone saw it.


  • #4
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    tommy21 wrote: »
    very quick response time in fairness.

    That's good, and reassuring to hear: you'd suspect they may be sluggish to respond to a call from UCC, considering the number of times they've had to trek out there only to find out it was a false alarm.

    But well done OP.


  • #5
    yerayeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭yerayeah


    I saw the fire service roll out one day last year walking into town from placement, thought they looked like a very well drilled service. They had 3 trucks out the door within a minute or so of the alarm going off! I was well impressed...


  • #6
    captainspeckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭captainspeckle


    tommy21 wrote: »
    Was coming down O'Donovan's road on the No.5. We were passing the houses that seem to constantly be undergoing renovation just before you come to the bridge (opposite the staff car park), and next thing I see one of those portable generators in flames in the front of the garden.

    So basically I want a medal for my good deed ;)

    Seriously though, the house could easily have gone up, and nobody appeared to have noticed it! Anyone see the aftermath? I got great satisfaction watching the fire engine I had called whip past me down on Washington St., very quick response time in fairness.

    THAT'S MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

    Jesus I hope its ok!?.........


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  • #7
    tommy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭tommy21


    captainspeckle wrote: »
    THAT'S MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

    Jesus I hope its ok!?.........

    Haha are you serious? The one I mean now is pretty much directly opposite the gate just before the bridge starts, parallel to it on the same side is a laneway going to a residential area, with the river running beside it. Can't remember which of the 2/3 houses it was. Won't be passing that way until Thursday!


  • #8
    captainspeckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭captainspeckle


    tommy21 wrote: »
    Haha are you serious? The one I mean now is pretty much directly opposite the gate just before the bridge starts, parallel to it on the same side is a laneway going to a residential area, with the river running beside it. Can't remember which of the 2/3 houses it was. Won't be passing that way until Thursday!

    Was it a kind of yellowish colour, semi detached, with a yard in the front with stones?


  • #9
    tommy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭tommy21


    captainspeckle wrote: »
    Was it a kind of yellowish colour, semi detached, with a yard in the front with stones?

    Think it had a house on either side, white in colour - but I was flying past in a bus so can't be sure! Sorry - it did have a portable generator in the front garden, resting on what appeared to be a pile of bricks or something.


  • #10
    captainspeckle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭captainspeckle


    tommy21 wrote: »
    Think it had a house on either side, white in colour - but I was flying past in a bus so can't be sure! Sorry - it did have a portable generator in the front garden, resting on what appeared to be a pile of bricks or something.

    Think it could be the house next door, which used to be my house! Will get my friend to check it out tomorrow, I am guessing she will be interested to see what's going on considering she is moving back in nest week!


  • #11
    tommy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭tommy21


    captainspeckle wrote: »
    Think it could be the house next door, which used to be my house! Will get my friend to check it out tomorrow, I am guessing she will be interested to see what's going on considering she is moving back in nest week!

    Cripes! Ihopefully it didn't get near the house, the fire brigade were there within ten minutes! Let me know how it goes!


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  • #12
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    yerayeah wrote: »
    I saw the fire service roll out one day last year walking into town from placement, thought they looked like a very well drilled service. They had 3 trucks out the door within a minute or so of the alarm going off! I was well impressed...

    Yes they are very well drilled. Three or four times a day to UCC AFA, three or four times a day to CUH AFA, and similar to Castlewhite.

    Automatic Fire alarm activation by; some one smoking; toast; burning their fry; cooking; spraying aerosol to try and hide smell of smoking and setting off alarm, workmen using a blow torch and a few more that I cannot remember right now.

    So they get a lot of exercise and practice as the whole battalion has to turn out, given it's a hospital, a student centre and a school.

    On top of that they have numerous bogus calls, and like a billion gorse fires, stolen car fires, electricity pole fires, bonfires.

    So when they get a real fire they are really well oiled and efficient. :)


  • #13
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    tommy21 wrote: »
    Cripes! Ihopefully it didn't get near the house, the fire brigade were there within ten minutes! Let me know how it goes!

    I'd say it was more like four minutes. :)


  • #14
    deRanged
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭deRanged


    gbee wrote: »
    Automatic Fire alarm activation by; some one smoking; toast; burning their fry; cooking; spraying aerosol to try and hide smell of smoking and setting off alarm, workmen using a blow torch and a few more that I cannot remember right now.

    bunsen burners in labs creating smoke under detectors, workers using a petrol driven con saw in doors! I once saw a guy smoking under a detector, he then held his lighter to it to prove it wouldn't go off ...

    they usually arrive at speed and then saunter into the building :)

    the house is fine - I had a look at it yesterday in passing and there's no sign that there was ever any fire. (assuming it's the one between the Glucksman and Geography gates.


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