{"id":584928,"date":"2026-07-14T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584928\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:43:12","slug":"cork-county-council-thanks-crews-involved-in-multi-agency-firefighting-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584928\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork County Council thanks crews involved in multi-agency firefighting operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Cork County Council has paid tribute to the agencies involved in a major firefighting operation involved in tackling a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41879057.html\">gorse fire<\/a> near Crosshaven yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cork County Council has paid tribute to the agencies involved in a major firefighting operation after a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41879057.html\">gorse fire<\/a> broke out near Crosshaven on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Crews from Cork City Fire Brigade as well as units from the Cork County fire services in Carrigaline, Crosshaven and Bandon attended the scene of the blaze last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Doyle Shipping Group had also deployed its firefighting escort tug, the DSG Alex, to fight the fire from the water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a social media post, Cork County Council said a significant volume of smoke was carried across the harbour towards Carrigaline due to strong easterly winds, &#8220;which at times made it difficult to accurately assess the location and extent of the fire from land&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The Coast Guard was requested to assist and provided valuable support from the water, enabling firefighters to gain a clearer view of the affected area and coordinate firefighting operations more effectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The Port of Cork&#8217;s firefighting tug also attended the scene and assisted operations through the use of its water cannons,&#8221; the council said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The local authority confirmed last night that the fire had been extinguished, adding that crews would remain on site for a number of hours to carry out damping-down operations in a bid to ensure there was no risk of reignition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Cork County Fire Service would like to thank all responding agencies for their cooperation and assistance in bringing the incident to a safe conclusion,&#8221; the council said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork County Council has paid tribute to the agencies involved in a major firefighting operation involved in tackling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,73094,18,5860,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-584928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cork-city-fire","tag-eire","tag-emergency-services","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116917686156983557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584928","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=584928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}