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Port of Cork blaze prompts calls for air monitors and emergency communications
The failure of local air monitors to provide real-time information during a major fire has been described as a “massive own goal” for the Environmental Protection Agency
Looking across at a large fire at a grain storage facility at the Ringaskiddy Deepwater Berth, Co Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.
Mon, 11 Jan, 2021 - 06:30
Eoin English
Environmentalists want the State to install air quality monitors in one of Ireland’s most industrialised zones after a massive blaze in Cork Harbour sparked health fears and criticism of emergency communications.
They said the huge smoke plume from the R&H Hall fire at the Port of Cork’s deepwater compound in Ringaskiddy shows what could happen if there was an accident or explosion at a chemical plant in the area or at the proposed Indaver incinerator.
Ringaskiddy blaze the third Cork harbour fire in four months
The Irish Examiner has learned that firefighters were called to two smaller fires at the R&H Hall building at the Port of Cork’s deepwater port facilities in Ringaskiddy in the last four months.
The scene a large fire at a Port of Cork site in Ringaskiddy today. Picture: Cork County Fire Service, Carrigaline Station
Sat, 09 Jan, 2021 - 16:17
Eoin English
Today’s massive fire at a grain storage building in Cork Harbour is the third fire at the facility in recent months.
The Irish Examiner has learned that firefighters were called to two smaller fires at the R&H Hall building at the Port of Cork’s deepwater port facilities in Ringaskiddy in the last four months.