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Thu 11 Nov 2009Firefighters resort to water tankers as city area remains without supply
CORK:FIREFIGHTERS HAD to use five tankers of water as they struggled with a fire at a factory on the north side of Cork city yesterday.
The area remained without a water supply following the flooding of the city’s main pumping station. But Cork City Fire Brigade had made special provision and had a number of water tankers on standby in the event of fires in the city and they used these tankers yesterday morning to tackle the blaze at the Second Nature Kitchen Collection Store at Hollymount industrial estate.
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