Four children, including a baby, were among five people rescued from the top floor of an IPAS centre in Drogheda, after fireworks were thrown into the building causing a fire.<\/p>\n
Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has condemned the incident, which occurred at the building housing International Protection applicants, at around 8pm yesterday.<\/p>\n
Five people – four children and an adult – were rescued from the top floor of the building.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed say that all aspects of the fire are being examined, but arson has not been ruled out.<\/p>\n
A number of people were brought Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, following the incident, but it is understood that none had serious injuries.<\/p>\n
A total of 28 people were living at the centre at the time of the blaze.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Minister O’Callaghan described the incident as a “terrifying ordeal for the women and children living there, a number of whom were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
“Alternative accommodation is now being sourced for the residents affected.<\/p>\n
“A full garda investigation into this arson attack is under way. There will be serious consequences for those responsible.”<\/p>\n
Three fire tenders dealt with the fire, which caused minor damage, and remained at the scene for two hours.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed are carrying out a technical examination of the scene today, the results of which will determine the course of their investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four children, including a baby, were among five people rescued from the top floor of an IPAS centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-115843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}