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Fire at Metro Hotel in Ballymun

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    #122
    jimmy180sx
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭jimmy180sx


    HONKEY TONK wrote:
    I see fire detection systems in the rooms bot no sprinklers as far as I could see.


    Sprinklers will likely be in corridors on escape routes


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    #123
    Jeff2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,985 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    TV3 can barely afford to put petrol in cars, and RTE aren't going to bother their arses crossing the liffey so who do you suggest?

    Rte can pay what they like to send people anywhere at your expense.


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    #124
    jd
    Registered Users Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭jd


    AGC wrote: »
    Didn’t think anything else would be going up after dark? Or allowed
    Coastguard is at airport, they could have provided relief (I think I may have heard them, not sure)


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    #125
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Jeff2 wrote: »
    Rte can pay what they like to send people anywhere at your expense.

    Not the north side though. Be crazy.


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    #126
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users Posts: 16,978 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    'Around 150 guests were staying in the hotel at the time, and all have been accounted for, along with all those living in the hotel.

    The hotel guests have been relocated to the nearby Carlton Hotel for the evening.'

    according to RTE


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    #127
    kravmaga
    Registered Users Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭kravmaga


    Jeff2 wrote: »
    There's a chopper flying over there now that I'd guess one of the TV stations hired.

    Thats the Garda Helicopter dude, ive just reviewed the footage on youtube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zesUB7Y69Y


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    #128
    humberklog
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    Jeff2 wrote: »
    Wait and see which station has footage from a chopper so.

    So what past experience have you seen of an Irish TV station taking a helicopter into a live incident area?

    BTW just as an aside Garda helicopter is in the area, that's the one being talked about.

    But where on earth are you getting the example of Irish TV ever taking a chopper into the air over a live incident?


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    #129
    Jeff2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,985 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Not the north side though. Be crazy.

    Well I guess flying in there in a chopper and hovering for a while would be safe enough for them.


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    #130
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,473 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    More gardai arriving in vans - presumably to deal with idiots?


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    #131
    muckbrien
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭muckbrien


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    More gardai arriving in vans - presumably to deal with idiots?

    They'll be maintaining a cordon I presume

    Garda won't be allowed in or close for safety reasons obviously


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    #132
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Looking at the Tweets it just shows how much the job can change in the blink of an eye lid, one second your entertaining the kids down the station, next your risking life and limb in an apartment complex fire.

    Great respect for our Fire Fighters.

    https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/976538360146726917

    https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/976560250869420032


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    #133
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,412 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Jeff2 wrote: »
    Well I guess flying in there in a chopper and hovering for a while would be safe enough for them.

    Any chance you can give an example of an Irish TV channel sticking a chopper above a live incident? (as per one of your previous posts).


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    #134
    Jeff2
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    All were evacuated on time and are staying in a different hotel. :)


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    #135
    [Deleted User]
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    TV3 reporting live there from the scene on the Tonight show.


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    #136
    NIMAN
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    Great to hear of no fatalities.


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    #137
    rafatoni
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    TV3 reporting live there from the scene on the Tonight show.
    are they in a helicopter?


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    #138
    humberklog
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    Jeff2 wrote: »
    All were evacuated on time and are staying in a different hotel. :)

    Were they airlifted by the TV chopper?


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    #139
    [Deleted User]
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    rafatoni wrote: »
    are they in a helicopter?

    Doubt they'd be allowed they reported 3 in the air to assist the fire brigade


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    #140
    Oops69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    humberklog wrote: »
    Were they airlifted by the TV chopper?

    no The network tv choppers were busy following all the multiple police, sorry cop car chases down the highway m50.


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    #141
    Grab All Association
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    hoping the reports are true that no one is injured or killed and all safely evacuated. Hope the firefighters are able to extinguish it without injury. Local residents should keep windows closed and check on family/friends/neighbours with respiratory problems.


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    #142
    Jeff2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,985 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    OK I got a slagging but the chopper was heading there fast and didn't put the light on.

    I was wrong.


    Can't wait to see tomorrow on TV that I was right. :D


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    #143
    NIMAN
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    Just looking at the images, it would appear that the fire is on 2 separate floors, 3 floors apart? Seen in this image.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/fire-brigade-tackles-major-blaze-at-hotel-in-north-dublin-1.3435687

    How would that happen, unless there are 2 separate fires?


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    #144
    Sparks43
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    Fire looks out from where I'm looking. Which is about 300 meters away.

    Fingers crossed it doesn't flare up again.


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    #145
    Dyr
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    Oops69 wrote: »
    no The network tv choppers were busy following all the multiple police, sorry cop car chases down the highway m50.


    Back to Ron Burgundy in the studio


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    #146
    sweetie
    Registered Users Posts: 9,791 ✭✭✭sweetie


    NIMAN wrote:
    Just looking at the images, it would appear that the fire is on 2 separate floors, 3 floors apart? Seen in this image.

    Article written by Sarah Burns!


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    #147
    jd
    Registered Users Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭jd


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Just looking at the images, it would appear that the fire is on 2 separate floors, 3 floors apart? Seen in this image.



    How would that happen, unless there are 2 separate fires?
    Two open windows/balcony doors , with curtains?


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    #148
    Greybottle
    Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭Greybottle


    humberklog wrote: »
    So what past experience have you seen of an Irish TV station taking a helicopter into a live incident area?

    BTW just as an aside Garda helicopter is in the area, that's the one being talked about.

    But where on earth are you getting the example of Irish TV ever taking a chopper into the air over a live incident?

    They had choppers flying over floods a couple of years ago, live reporting going on there.

    Some people may remember the Eye in the Sky chopper that flew over Dublin every evening in the 90's giving traffic reports. This wa before we were all connected via CCTV and mobile phones.

    No TV station has one as we are a relatively peaceful city compared to many others.


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    #149
    greencap
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    rafatoni wrote: »
    are they in a helicopter?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBxHcNJgUt0

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



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    #150
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    I thought Twitter would have been interesting for an event like this.

    Nope, full of gob****es taking a pop at the government about front line workers pay, construction and the housing crisis, including one MEP claiming the hotel is housing lots of homeless families despite there actually being none.

    And when people then realise there's no homeless families that seems to be the end of it for them, not a thought for those who may actually be living in those apartments in the process of losing their homes.


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    #151
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    By the way if we did have eye in the sky choppers they wouldn't be allowed next or near Ballymun by Airport ATC.


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