Drinking water used to fight blaze

FIREFIGHTERS had to use tankers supplying drinking water to homes in Cork to extinguish a blaze at a kitchen factory yesterday.

The fire broke out at the Second Nature Kitchen Collection Store at Hollyhill Industrial Estate on the northside of the city, shortly before 9.30am yesterday.

Cork City Fire Brigade third officer Edward Buckley said, because of water shortages on the northside of the city following the floods, they took seven units to the blaze instead of the customary two or three.