{"id":5142,"date":"2026-04-03T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/5142\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:47:09","slug":"firefighters-tackle-banbridge-blaze-at-hay-shed-housing-hundreds-of-sheep-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/5142\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters tackle Banbridge blaze at hay shed housing hundreds of sheep &#8211; LIVE updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Firefighters are tackling a fire at a large hay shed this Friday morning, April 3 housing around 300 sheep in <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/co-down\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Co Down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (<a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/NIFRS\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">NIFRS<\/a>) were tasked to the farm on the Cascum Road in<a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/Banbridge\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\"> Banbridge<\/a> just after 9pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The fire is in hay, which is being removed by a telehandler to help extinguish the fire. Initially, 300 sheep in the shed were led to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Over 40 firefighters and six fire appliances have been working throughout the night to bring the blaze under control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are tackling a fire at a large hay shed this Friday morning, April 3 housing around 300&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2949,2947,2948,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-banbridge","9":"tag-co-down","10":"tag-nifrs","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116340617484895460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","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=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}