“It’s a towering inferno,” joked Dublin Fire Brigade station officer Trevor Hunt as the emergency vehicles approached a small bonfire on a plot of land in Cherry Orchard on Wednesday night.
The fire crew quickly extinguished the blaze. They seemed almost apologetic for the lack of Halloween-related action.
The crews had more than enough other calls to keep them busy, however, ranging from car crashes to heart attacks to suicide attempts. Later in the night, firefighters, all of whom are trained as paramedics, were called to Dame Street where a male pedestrian had been fatally hit by a truck.
It was a dry, cold night. Perfect bonfire weather. For Dublin Fire Brigade, Halloween starts around the end of August, with groups setting off fireworks and prematurely igniting stashes of pallets.
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