Ulster Incident Page 2 (Fires & Rescues)
Irish Republic: Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan.
Northern Ireland: Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone.
County Antrim 11/05/2012
A bus travelling from Belfast to Ballymena went on fire on the M2 motorway northbound near Antrim on Friday. A spokeswoman for Translink said the driver saw smoke coming out of the bus and pulled over onto the hard shoulder of the road. He got all the passengers off the bus safely. The NIFRS were called and the fire was extinguished.
County Down 07/05/2012
House fire in Newry on the 07/05/2012. Units of the Fire Service from Newry and Warrenpoint attended the scene.
County Cavan 07/04/2012
Scene of a Tractor fire outside Kingscourt Town on the 07/04/2012. One unit of the fire service from Kingscourt attended the scene.
Belfast 01/04/2012
Mandatory Credit - Picture by Matt Mackey/presseye.com
Twelve people were led to safety by Firefighters when a fire occurred in a first floor flat at the six floor apartment block Bass Buildings in Alfred Street in Belfast city centre on Sunday 01/04/2012.
Another woman was rescued using a 9 metre ladder. Crews wearing breathing apparatus used a main jet and a hosereel jet to extinguish the fire. No injuries were sustained at the incident.
M1 Motorway 02/02/2012
Seen of a Truck fire on the M1 motorway in Banbridge on the 2nd Feb attended to by NIFRS. Driver managed to get out of his unit and wasn't injured
Belfast 20/01/2012
A bus with 20 passengers on board in Belfast city centre was evacuated after a fire was spotted at the back of the vehicle on Jan 20th. The Fire and Rescue Service's district commander for north and west Belfast, Martin McDonald, praised the reaction of the bus driver and the work of his crews in putting out the blaze.
"On arrival we were faced with a fairly well developing fire in the rear of the bus," he said. "Conditions were very, very dangerous for the public in the immediate vicinity because of the large quantities of smoke that were being issued by the fire. "Very quickly everyone was removed from the bus by the driver and we were here in two minutes and able to prevent a lot more serious incident occurring."
County Down 06/03/2012
Scene of a fatal house fire in Dromara, Co. Down in the early hours of Tuesday morning (06/03/12). The alarm was raised to the fire on the Dundrum Road at around 3.30am and 3 units of the NIFRS attended the scene.
County Monaghan
Scene of a Fire at a Take-a-Way in Monaghan Town on the 24/01/2012. Several units of the Fire service Monaghan Town and surrounding stations attend the Incident.
County Down 18/02/2012
Fire crews battled a blaze on Saturday evening (18/2/12) at the historic Bank of Ireland building on Trevor Hill in Newry, Co. Down. The Grade B1 listed building is steeped in the city’s history, as the first branch of Bank of Ireland to open in Ulster, in 1876.
Three fire engines & an Aerial Ladder Platform attended the scene & were forced to smash a number of windows at the property in their attempts to extinguish the blaze.
Belfast 03/02/2012
The residents of a detached house in Sandyknowes Park, Glengormley were awakened in the early hours of Friday morning (3/2/12) when a smoke alarm sounded. A 58 year old man and a 61 year old woman had vacated the house, but the woman returned to the house to rescue their pet dog. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the property and found the woman unconscious on the first floor.
They rescued the woman and also had to revive the man who was having breathing difficulties from the result of having breathed in smoke. Firefighters were also able to rescue the dog from the property. A main jet, a hosereel jet and a covering jet were used to deal with the fire. Both casualties required further hospital treatment.
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County Armagh 09/01/2012
Scene of a house fire in Portadown attended to by NIFRS.
County Down 19/06/2011
The fire was on the 19th of July at the dissused premises of the old Abbey Grammar School in Newry where mobile classrooms were burnt.
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