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Firefighters battle waste truck fire on the M50 this evening. Photo: Audi Murray<\/p>\n
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Motorists are advised of delays on the M50 as firefighters are responding to a waste truck on fire this evening.<\/p>\n
Dublin Fire Brigade is currently at the scene of the fire on the M50 Northbound at J7 in Lucan, Dublin.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the fire brigade said road users can expect the full closure.<\/p>\n
However, they added they\u2019ve \u201cmade good progress and are hoping to open a lane soon\u201d.<\/p>\n
Four fire engines, a foam tender and an emergency tender are also at the scene.<\/p>\n
“Firefighters are currently responding to a waste truck fire, Northbound on M50 in Dublin J7 Lucan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA full closure is in place, we’ll keep you updated as the incident develops,\u201d a spokesperson for the Dublin Fire Brigade said.<\/p>\n
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Firefighters battle waste truck fire on the M50 this evening. Photo: Audi Murray<\/p>\n
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A spokesperson for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) Traffic has described the incident as \u201cserious\u201d.<\/p>\n
They also advised motorists to expect delays during their journeys, adding that all lanes are currently closed between J7 Lucan and J6 Blanchardstown.<\/p>\n
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Dublin Airport has also advised passengers travelling to the airport this evening to be aware of delays.<\/p>\n
\u201cPassengers travelling to the airport this evening should note that the M50 northbound is currently closed between Junction 7, Lucan, and Junction 6, Blanch, due to a vehicle fire,\u201d a spokesperson for Dublin Airport said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle waste truck fire on the M50 this evening. Photo: Audi Murray Dublin’s M50. Stock image Motorists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2540,11900,42,69197,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-195776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-adrianna-wrona","tag-dublin-airport","tag-headlines","tag-m50","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195776","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=195776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}