According to reports this evening a number of employees at a Limerick plant hire company were evacuated from their workplace today after a large scrap metal fire broke out close to the premises.
It is understood emergency services quickly rushed to the blaze which broke out at approximately 3pm at a scrap metal yard in Crossagalla Business Park, located off the Ballysimon Road.
A number of sources say the evacuation was ordered as w precautionary measure as the fire was close the GPT plant hire facility.