Bray Fire

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Anyone see the fires in Bray today? One on Bray Head and one on Castle Street. From the videos it looks like second one might be Everest Cycles. Could be a lot of bike gone up in smoke...
Couple if videos up on Facebook

kenmc

seems likely
www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/traffic-diverted-as-fire-breaks-out-at-bicycle-shop-in-bray-1.1867370

d-don

Was there before the ore engines .. Te most intense fire I've seen and the smoke was well black .. Took loads of photos . Feel so bad for the small businesses here

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A sad sight this morning, most of the Everest Centre looks to be gutted internally including the bike shop. Got my first bike with gears (Townsend Oberon or something like that) from there around 20-something years ago.

daragh_

Sorry to hear that. Got my eldest daughter's first bike there.

wanderer 22

Hope they manage to get it open again, had my first job there (when it was Penny Farthing)

Only lasted a day, but that's another story..

.ak

The fires must've been pretty intense as I could smell and see the smoke from Dublin 1.

Gasco

Sorry to hear about Everests, the source of my wife's family's bike related produce for years.

Encountered this on the commute home last night, by that stage Castle road was closed. You could taste the smoke from the Bray north roundabout, it was pretty intense by the detour.

Thanks to the fellow commuter (did not get a name) who pointed me in the right direction for the N11 (I was not bestowed with a good sense of direction).

Blowfish

.ak wrote: »

The fires must've been pretty intense as I could smell and see the smoke from Dublin 1.

That would have been from the other fire on Bray head.

Wicklowrider

Everest will be a loss to the community and hope they can re-open.
Tommy & Ken - two of the soundest men you could meet and would do anything they could for anyone, even strangers. There was a thread about them on this forum. Anyone who did the Skoda Wicklow tour - that was Tommy doing support in the red van.

dragratchet

i was swimming down by vico road and was getting lungfuls of the smoke coming across the bay.. even at 9:15 it was billowing out of the place

Thargor

I went up Bray head at 18:30 to see what it was like, all that smoke seemingly poisoning half of Dublin yesterday and cancelling all the trains south of Bray was coming from a patch of fire the size of 2 parked cars, I couldn't believe it, the wind was at my back so you could walk right up to it aswell, if Id had a fire extinguisher I could have put it out.

Wicklowrider

Tommy and Ken are working out of a premises at the rear of Lidl on the old Dublin Road Bray. Having lost just about everything ( Tommy's flat burned with everything in it) they are back doing what they always have done: looking after customers.

If ever there were honest hardworking people who deserved our support these are the people. If you need anything or just want to drop in and have a word of support I'd urge you not to think twice. They never thought twice about giving great, often free, service to the community.

Just a reminder of who they are and what they do:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=67076689

ZiabR

Very unfortunate they have lost everything. Fair play to them for continuing on with the customer service. Hopefully they can get back up and running properly soon.

cajonlardo

Good to see Tommy and Ken are officially re-opening in new premises.
They are round the back of Lidl on the old Dublin Road. They are there now and working away but the grand opening is on Saturday afternoon.
Service like theirs is a rarity and I'm glad to see them back.