Furniture Store Destroyed By Fire

A furniture shop at the East Point Business Park on the Ballysimon road has been destroyed by a fire overnight. The alarm was raised after 1.30 AM this morning. Two ambulances, the Gardai, and four units of the Limerick fire brigade attended the scene. It took them well in to the early hours of this morning to bring the blaze under control, they prevented the fire from spreading to other retail units. There was no casualties, but hundreds of thousands of euros worth of stock was lost in the blaze. The scene is currently sealed off pending a Garda technical investigation.