{"id":11885,"date":"2026-04-11T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/11885\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:22:21","slug":"major-fire-at-nissan-dealership-in-bircholt-road-maidstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/11885\/","title":{"rendered":"Major fire at Nissan dealership in\u00a0Bircholt Road, Maidstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three fire engines remain at the scene of a major blaze at a car dealership, which has been confirmed to have started in a bin shed.<\/p>\n

Dramatic pictures showed thick black smoke billowing from the building, which is believed to be the Nissan dealership in Bircholt Road, Maidstone.<\/p>\n

\"This\"ThisThis Nissan dealership in Maidstone is on fire<\/p>\n

A witness who saw the blaze before fire engines arrived shortly before 3.30pm said he could hear \u201csizzling and popping\u201d from the scene.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt looks like it has started in a workshop at the back of the dealership, in the rear of the building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smoke was also seen blowing across to the A274 Sutton Road and it has now been confirmed that the blaze started in a bin shed and spread to the commercial property.<\/p>\n

At its height, six fire engines and a technical rescue unit attended the scene.<\/p>\n

Crews, wearing breathing apparatus, have been using main jets to extinguish the flames.<\/p>\n

\"Thick\"ThickThick black smoke is billowing from the building in Bircholt Road, Maidstone<\/p>\n

However, two hours later at 5.20pm, a spokesperson for Kent Fire and Rescue (KFRS) confirmed firefighters have been making \u201cgood progress\u201d tackling the blaze.<\/p>\n

They said: \u201cPeople living or travelling near Bircholt Road, Maidstone are no longer being advised to close windows and doors due to smoke coming from a commercial premises fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirefighters have made good progress over the last hour, and the incident has been reduced to three fire engines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kent Police is in attendance for traffic control.<\/p>\n

More as we have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three fire engines remain at the scene of a major blaze at a car dealership, which has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[308,309,1082,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-fire","9":"tag-kent","10":"tag-maidstone","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116387705165776782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}