The Original Mining Company trailer pump, seen here outside Wandesfort House,Castlecomer. This was given to Castlecomer Fire Service and was based in the mining office yard (Avalon Inn).
The County Council supplied a fire service in the late 1940s with the trailer pump based at Pat Hetherington's shed in Market Sq now Cunninghams Green Grocer. A new station was built in 1954 in Love Lane.
Smoke can fill a house in minutes In dense smoke research shows that average walking speed can slow from over a metre a second to less than 30 centimetres; subjects behaved as if they were walking in total darkness.
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