Post Tagged with: "Fire"

A FIRE caused extensive damage to a building on the Mitchels Road last night. Emergency services were called to the area in the early hours of Thursday and the fire service extinguished the blaze. However, the fire gutted the building — which was the former Lockes Shop many years ago. […]

A FUNDRAISING page has been set up for a Tralee family who lost their home in a fire at Fountain Court yesterday morning. Six houses were affected by the fire which it is thought was caused by an electrical fault. The house where the fire started was not occupied at […]

THE man who died in the house fire in Moyvane last night has been named locally as Jimmy Fitzgerald. Mr Fitzgerald, who was in his 70s and lived alone in the house in the Woodgrove Estate, has been described as a lovely quiet man by a local county councillor. “He […]

A MAN in his 70s has died following a house fire in Moyvane overnight. The man is believed to be local and the sole occupant of the house in the Woodgrove housing estate in the village. Fire brigade units from Listowel and Ballybunion were dispatched to the estate after the alarm was […]

A SECTION of road at the roundabout in Ballymullen had to be closed temporarily this morning after a car was engulfed in flames. It happened at just before 9.40am just after the roundabout, adjacent to the small park with the Christ the King statue. No one was injured in the blaze and a female occupant got away […]

  THERE is a sense of shock in Fenit at the death of Fr. Gearoid Ó Donnchadha in a fire in the early hours of Monday morning. The well-known an much-loved man was a huge figure in the Fenit community, actively promoting many projects in Fenit and beyond, including the statue of […]

AN Garda Síochána in the Kerry Division are currently investigating the cause of a number of land and forest fires which took place in the Killarney National Park and surrounding areas on Wednesday, April 8. The fires which lasted for a considerable length of time before being brought under control by […]

A TRALEE man was just half a block away from the explosion in New York yesterday when fire engulfed two buildings causing them to collapse. There were 19 casualties in the incident – which is suspected to have been caused by a gas leak – four serious with one person reported missing. […]

TRAFFIC  came to a standstill in the town centre after Denny Street was closed off to traffic fora short time on Wednesday morning due to a fire. A small chimney fire at Finnegans B&B, which is adjacent to the KDYS, caused the street to be closed. Continued below… Two Gardai were placed […]

THERE were dramatic scenes when a car caught fire on the road adjacent to the Holy Family School playground on Friday afternoon. Nobody was hurt in the incident which occurred between 2.20pm and 2.35pm. TraleeToday.ie was passing at the time and took the video (below) of the incident. When we arrived, smoke […]