Firefighters went to wrong address

TWO separate inquiries are under way into a mix-up that sent firefighters to the wrong address while the house at the centre of the emergency burned to the ground.

Members of the Kilkenny city fire brigade were horrified to discover after they rushed to a callout a week before Christmas that the actual blaze was 27km away.

By the time their colleagues from Thomastown and Callan stations, who should have been dispatched in the first place, were alerted, they had lost 28 minutes and the house was completely gutted.