{"id":16121,"date":"2025-08-22T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16121\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:27:09","slug":"its-a-miracle-the-house-didnt-go-up-too-windows-blown-in-as-car-bursts-into-flames-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16121\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a miracle the house didn&#8217;t go up too&#8217;: Windows blown in as car bursts into flames in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CAR BLAZE erupted with such force that it blew in windows of a house in a residential estate in Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze that tore through the vehicle in Annacotty stopped motorists in their tracks on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services attended the scene of the car fire just after 4pm on Thursday, August 21.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Limerick Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that they received the first call about the fire at 4.21pm.<\/p>\n<p>Three units from Limerick City Fire Station attended the scene, before returning to base at 5.33pm.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the car went up in flames due to a fault, with damage being caused to the dwelling house, including windows being blown in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/education\/1875578\/thousands-of-limerick-students-gear-up-for-leaving-certificate-results.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Thousands of Limerick students gear up for Leaving Certificate results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A passenger in a passing vehicle who recorded the scene exclaimed: &#8220;Oh my God&#8221; on witnessing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>One local told Limerick Live: &#8220;It&#8217;s a miracle the house didn&#8217;t go up too. The firefighters were on in no time and put it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The local described the incident as a &#8220;scary thing to happen during the day but at least it wasn&#8217;t in the middle of the night when people would be asleep&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na confirmed that garda\u00ed attended the scene: &#8220;Garda\u00ed assisted Fire Services with an incident of fire in Annacotty, Co. Limerick on Thursday 21st\u00a0August 2025 at approximately 4:20pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;No offences have been disclosed at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CAR BLAZE erupted with such force that it blew in windows of a house in a residential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[14512,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,1844,7587,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-16121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-annacotty","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-limerick","20":"tag-limerick-city","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}