Fire rages at scrap metal yard in Limerick

Firefighters were last night still trying to dampen a red hot 20ft high pile of scrap metal which created an inferno threatening an industrial zone in Limerick.

Up to 20 members of the city and county fire service prevented the fire engulfing a newly-opened filling station on the Ballysimon Road.

The fire destroyed a large section of the Clear Circle metal recycling site and had spread to the neighbouring GPT plant site compound before city fire service members managed to contain the blaze.