{"id":250790,"date":"2026-01-18T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250790\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:23:07","slug":"breaking-investigation-under-way-after-fatal-house-fire-in-limerick-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250790\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Investigation under way after fatal house fire in Limerick city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AN INVESTIGATION is under way following a fatal house fire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/131\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> city.<\/p>\n<p>The fire service were alerted to the blaze in the Singland area by a member of the public at 5.22pm this Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/local-news\/1991176\/limerick-broadcaster-brings-a-voice-to-people-s-loss-and-grief-in-new-podcast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick broadcaster brings a voice to people&#8217;s loss and grief in new podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four appliances from Limerick Fire &amp; Rescue in the city responded and it&#8217;s understood the fire was well established at that stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has unfortunately been a fatality. That&#8217;s all we can say at the moment,&#8221; said a source.<\/p>\n<p>The fire has since been brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AN INVESTIGATION is under way following a fatal house fire in Limerick city. The fire service were alerted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,42,1396,44,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-250790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-headlines","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city","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\/250790","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=250790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}