![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0_fire.png\")
The fire on Lover’s Walk(Image: Cork City Fire Brigade)<\/p>\nCrews worked tirelessly for three hours<\/p>\n
09:31, 21 Nov 2025Updated 09:32, 21 Nov 2025<\/p>\n
The fire on Lover’s Walk(Image: Cork City Fire Brigade)<\/p>\n
Firefighters rushed to tackle a blaze in Cork city last night, in what proved to be difficult situation that took three hours to bring under control.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fire crews responded to the emergency at a home on Lover’s Walk in Montenotte<\/a> after receiving a call shortly before 7pm. Cork City Fire Brigade<\/a> Second Officer Victor Shine told CorkBeo that the “complex structure” of the old building presented crews with “access difficulties,” and members of the public were urged to stay away and close their windows due to “significant smoke from the incident.”<\/p>\n However, employing all their expertise, crews Ballyvolane and Cork City Fire Brigade Headquarters were able to extinguish the fire after three hours and a man was discharged at the scene after being treated for smoke inhalation. Mr Shine added that once the complicated access difficulties were surmounted, crews were able to put the fire out swiftly.<\/p>\n The success of the operation is a testament to the intense training that Cork firefighters go through as new recruits. A video shared by Cork County Fire Service<\/a> shows how firefighters prepare equipment and battle fires inside cramped shipping containers – designed to mimic the dangerous conditions inside a burning house, where temperatures can reach up 600 degrees centigrade.<\/p>\n It has been a busy week for fire crews and other emergency services in Cork city. In a separate incident earlier this week, a major fire broke out at a commercial premises<\/a> at Little Island, with firefighters battling the blaze late into the night. The commercial warehouse affected by the fire is located in the Ballytrasna area of Little Island, where there are several industrial premises.<\/p>\n On that occasion, bright orange flames and thick plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the industrial warehouse from across Cork Harbour, and residents reported hearing the noise of ‘explosions’ from as far away as Passage West, Mahon and Rochestown.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, two fire stations in North Cork<\/a> have put out the call for new retained firefighters – here’s how you can sign up<\/a> to protect and serve your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews worked tirelessly for three hours 09:31, 21 Nov 2025Updated 09:32, 21 Nov 2025 The fire on Lover’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,43516,101040,18,13,14,23347,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-192563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cork-city","11":"tag-cork-city-fire-brigade","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-fires","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115587825636773790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192563","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=192563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}