{"id":585317,"date":"2026-08-06T20:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585317\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:54:14","slug":"fire-service-battles-large-blaze-in-dublin-as-residents-advised-to-close-doors-and-windows-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585317\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire service battles large blaze in Dublin as residents advised to close doors and windows \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-fire-brigade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-fire-brigade\">Dublin Fire Brigade<\/a> (DFB) continued to fight a large fire at a car dismantlers in north Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> on Thursday evening with the service saying it expected units to be at the scene into the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">DFB advised any residents close to the fire at Wimbletown to close all windows and doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fire was first reported shortly after 3pm and by 5pm there were eight units at the scene:  five fire engines, a foam unit and two water tanks. This subsequently increased as additional equipment was brought in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fire is located near Ballyboughal in Fingal, not far from Lusk, and  was clearly visible across a wide area of the city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Black smoke drifts from the scene of the fire. Photograph: Garrett White\/Collins\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ZY66VIYRO3LFO64MBVXHMBRZ3M.JPG\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Black smoke drifts from the scene of the fire. Photograph: Garrett White\/Collins <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">DFB said  senior officers were overseeing the operation to extinguish the fire and it was receiving support from both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\">Meath<\/a> fire service and Dublin Airport Fire and Rescue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local road closures were in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> The fire service said the scale of their operation at the scene would be reduced as the night went on but some personnel would be remaining  \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d given the \u201cprotracted\u201d nature of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The cause of the of the fire is not yet known. There are no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The smoke could be seen from a far distance away from the site of the incident. Photograph: Garrett White\/Collins\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7YG6RURUXDUVJ7PKGFAK6JGA5U.JPG\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>The smoke could be seen from a far distance away from the site of the incident. Photograph: Garrett White\/Collins <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) continued to fight a large fire at a car dismantlers in north Co Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,34724,61,60,15949,43],"class_list":["post-585317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-fire-brigade","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meath","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585317","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=585317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}