Fire at Metro Hotel in Ballymun

sdanseo · 21-03-2018 11:10pm

The planning ref. is 1052/03 but no documents seem to be uploaded other than the grant permission notice.

muckbrien · 21-03-2018 11:11pm

kravmaga wrote: »

It was completed in 2007 by Pierse contracting and a group of investors, its 15 floors in height.

The hotel was sold in 2014.

I don't know if the hotel has sprinklers but I would imagine it has a Fire Detection alarm system and evacuation system in place .

Used to be the Days 3 star hotel and it was a new build.

That's a whole other can of worms too

Fire spreading and everyone being evacuated by alarm

None of that should be happening ideally

Pinch Flat · 21-03-2018 11:14pm

sdanseo wrote: »

The planning ref. is 1052/03 but no documents seem to be uploaded other than the grant permission notice.

Planning would be silent on fire cert - they’re maintained at Dublin City fire brigade in Townsend street. Be interested to see if there’s a reference to a sprinkler system in the planning application.

Mark Henderson · 21-03-2018 11:15pm

Jeff2 wrote: »

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

Haha. This isn't America. It's the Gardai helicopter.

Dyr · 21-03-2018 11:15pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The rubbish shoots were the way out if there had of been a big fire in the towers

the way out for people?? are you mental?:eek:

What saved the flats many many times was that they were bare, thick concrete that made it difficult for a blaze to spread

Great_one · 21-03-2018 11:16pm

Working class heroes wrote: »

No they wouldn’t.

Ya day wood

Jeff2 · 21-03-2018 11:18pm

joegriffinjnr wrote: »

Garda

No it didn't look like one of theirs.

HONKEY TONK · 21-03-2018 11:19pm

Just looked at the photo gallery on the website.

I see fire detection systems in the rooms bot no sprinklers as far as I could see.

Weepsie · 21-03-2018 11:21pm

Video just posted of what looks like a family still in a room 2-3 floors below. Would like to believe it's entirely empty

HONKEY TONK · 21-03-2018 11:21pm

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Residential / hotel use and over 30m high, sprinklers would be mandatory

Can you post a link to that as I’ve been checking everywhere for that information

AGC · 21-03-2018 11:21pm

Jeff2 wrote: »

No it didn't look like one of theirs.

Didn’t think anything else would be going up after dark? Or allowed

Jeff2 · 21-03-2018 11:22pm

Mark Henderson wrote: »

Haha. This isn't America. It's the Gardai helicopter.

Wait and see which station has footage from a chopper so.

fritzelly · 21-03-2018 11:23pm

Grenfell now on Sky News (Youtube), hope nothing similar here

For Forks Sake · 21-03-2018 11:24pm

Jeff2 wrote: »

Wait and see which station has footage from a chopper so.

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?

Franz Von Peppercorn · 21-03-2018 11:24pm

Jeff2 wrote: »

Wait and see which station has footage from a chopper so.

They’re all finished for the night. The Irish ones anyway. Maybe sky.

21-03-2018 11:32pm

Weepsie wrote: »

Video just posted of what looks like a family still in a room 2-3 floors below. Would like to believe it's entirely empty

Seriously? Wonder if video is from hours ago when fire just started?

Pinch Flat · 21-03-2018 11:32pm

HONKEY TONK wrote: »

Can you post a link to that as I’ve been checking everywhere for that information

https://www.nsai.ie/Our-Services-(1)/Standardization-(1)/2017-Standards-Promotion/201712-NSAI-FSS-Seminar-CB.aspx

Slide no 10. Would also be in part B of the technical guidance documents (fire)

Kermit.de.frog · 21-03-2018 11:33pm

Seem to be getting it under control going by images on Twitter. Looks like firefighters inside.

Pinch Flat · 21-03-2018 11:34pm

HONKEY TONK wrote: »

Just looked at the photo gallery on the website.

I see fire detection systems in the rooms bot no sprinklers as far as I could see.

Most likely sprinklers on escape routes only. Bedrooms most likely to have one hour fire rated walls from room to room and room to corridor

beertons · 21-03-2018 11:34pm

Few brazzers gone offline tonight.

jimmy180sx · 21-03-2018 11:35pm

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

Jeff2 · 21-03-2018 11:38pm

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.

jd · 21-03-2018 11:39pm

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)

Franz Von Peppercorn · 21-03-2018 11:40pm

Jeff2 wrote: »

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

Not the north side though. Be crazy.

A Dub in Glasgo · 21-03-2018 11:40pm

'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

kravmaga · 21-03-2018 11:41pm

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

humberklog · 21-03-2018 11:44pm

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?

Jeff2 · 21-03-2018 11:45pm

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.

Kermit.de.frog · 21-03-2018 11:50pm

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

muckbrien · 21-03-2018 11:54pm

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

TallGlass · 21-03-2018 11:55pm

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

humberklog · 21-03-2018 11:58pm

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).

Jeff2 · 22-03-2018 12:00am

All were evacuated on time and are staying in a different hotel.

22-03-2018 12:03am

TV3 reporting live there from the scene on the Tonight show.

NIMAN · 22-03-2018 12:04am

Great to hear of no fatalities.

rafatoni · 22-03-2018 12:06am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

TV3 reporting live there from the scene on the Tonight show.

are they in a helicopter?

humberklog · 22-03-2018 12:08am

Jeff2 wrote: »

All were evacuated on time and are staying in a different hotel.

Were they airlifted by the TV chopper?

22-03-2018 12:08am

rafatoni wrote: »

are they in a helicopter?

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

Oops69 · 22-03-2018 12:11am

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.

Grab All Association · 22-03-2018 12:11am

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.

Jeff2 · 22-03-2018 12:16am

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.

NIMAN · 22-03-2018 12:21am

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?

Sparks43 · 22-03-2018 12:23am

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

Fingers crossed it doesn't flare up again.

Dyr · 22-03-2018 12:47am

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

sweetie · 22-03-2018 12:50am

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!

jd · 22-03-2018 12:50am

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?

Greybottle · 22-03-2018 12:53am

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.

greencap · 22-03-2018 1:01am

rafatoni wrote: »

are they in a helicopter?

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

Hurrache · 22-03-2018 1:14am

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.

Are Am Eye · 22-03-2018 1:21am

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

Fire at Metro Hotel in Ballymun

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