RESIDENTS IN PARTS of north Dublin are being advised to close their windows and doors after a large quantity of tyres caught fire this morning.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out at an agricultural site in the Ballyboughal area this morning, with Dublin Fire Brigade arriving at the scene at 10.53am.<\/p>\n
Smoke from the blaze has been visible in the surrounding area, with local residents advised to keep windows and doors closed as a precaution if they are affected.<\/p>\n
Five fire engines were sent to the scene, including a water tanker and a specialist foam tender.<\/p>\n
Almost 20 firefighters have been involved in tackling the blaze, with crews from Swords, Balbriggan, Phibsborough and Tara Street fire stations attending.<\/p>\n
Firefighters used breathing apparatus while tackling the fire, which was brought under control shortly before midday, at 11.58am.<\/p>\n
Dublin Fire Brigade had earlier said crews were making good progress at the scene.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is not yet known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RESIDENTS IN PARTS of north Dublin are being advised to close their windows and doors after a large…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255702,615,34724,47,69709,61,60,43,255703],"class_list":["post-603222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ballyboughal","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-fire-brigade","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tyre-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603222","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=603222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}