Parish News: Gibraltar Dockyard On Fire
Parish news maybe, but a major explosion where TheEye lives on the North Mole in Gibraltar. That’s the cruise liner Independence Of The Seas in the background. She has moved to the eastern side of the Rock now. (Luckily Dioclese is cruising the other end of the Med)
As we have many local readers this will be updated as news comes in and TheEye is watching this as the smoke billows. The Rolling Update will be over-written rather than added to. No point posting in increments really,
Rolling Update: Two injuries, one with serious burns, reported so far. He’s been flown to Seville Hospital. Defence Fire Service and Royal Gibraltar Police on the scene. RAF Gibraltar is closed and the Chief Minister has arrived with some splendid soundbites. The C3 Committee is about to meet (you’d have to be really local to get that reference – UK readers think COBRA but with plastic chairs).
All very dramatic. Black smoke is usually the sign of breaking chaos, apparently. This is the most exciting harbour event for a decade and TheEye has just been turned away from a waterfront vantage point – based not on the police disapproving of voyeuristic traits but having a glass of red wine in hand.
BULLSHIT UPDATE: No6 Convent Place are hinting at possible terrorist activity. Possibly maybe. Hah! (Note to non-locals…No6 is the equivalent of No10 Downing Street for the UK and there is a General Election due this year. Scaremongering never goes out of fashion it seems)
Terrorism? Really? Somebody just pressed the wrong button – everybody please relax, eh?
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Tapes-toi une queue et va niquer ta mère espèce de connard qui se lèche le cul chaque matin en fumant des gauloises pour le petit-déj’
Okay okay, let’s just say that I’m a tiny bit interested in what’s happening locally.
The French above from “Guest” is random trolling inviting me to wind my neck in. Possibly a bot. Maybe real?
In return, if you want you learn some odd French I’ve invited him to…monkey..pleasure…licking…backside…cigarettes..breakfast.
Ask the Froggie bastard about surrender, cheese-eating & collaboaration ..
They look very much like small fuel tanks on the jetty, starboard-side, aft Eye .. something lit & discarded from above perhaps ?
Meanwhile keep safe Matey ..
Looks like a fuel tank on fire. Is it?
Sorry to learn of the injuries.
Let’s hope it doesn’t spread.
Didn’t need your name Cap’n, I would have known it was you from the first paragraph 🙂
Two, it seems now. The top of one seems to have been blown clear and the second one was on fire aterwards, Waste oil rather than new stuff.
Thanks Joe. I’ve got friends who are attending as part of the emergency response units and those are the people who have the dangerous job now.
CH is unbeatable as always 😀
And yes, well spotted on the contents of the tanks from the location. Gash stuff not fresh it turns out but very possibly some lazy git with a stray cigarette.
Bleedin’ typical that is Eye …
“Royal” goes to the trouble of capturing & securing the “Rock” since 1704 .. then some knobber comes bimbling along & tries to burn the place down .. >:o
Ne’er mind .. just stick to the old motto “Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Asbestos” .. (“Up Yours Jack, I’m Fireproof”) ..
Just hope your oppos who’re responding stay OK ..
St C had his port visit shortened by this terrible event, and has had his hard earned evening ashore shortened to the
Point that the Rooke bar was closed, and he had to go to O’Reily’s bar! Damn them all!
“Per Mare, Per Terram” was fine at the time eh, Captain, but nobody mentioned anything about “On Fire” as well did they?
If the bar at HMS Rooke is closed then to be fair we’re all doomed.
Is nothing sacred any longer?
Don’t go aboard ship, no matter how much free booze they hand out.
It’s surprising what I’ll do for free booze 😀
Good to see a healthy and ever so slightly cynical Eye is being kept on my old ( ’60 -’63 as 1/3000 part of Garrison) stomping ground…. worried about possible destruction by fire of the Barnacle Club. Do post up dates when possible.
Abueloeddie
If you want a place to cast a sarcastic eye over, then Gibraltar can be a complete satire-fest. But in a great way. I wouldn’t change it for anything, warts and all.
Much as I try to blog on international and UK stuff I can’t resist the parochial blogposts every now and then.