{"id":8127,"date":"2026-04-07T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/8127\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:39:10","slug":"fire-crews-called-to-incident-near-dreamland-and-arlington-house-in-margate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/8127\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews called to incident near Dreamland and Arlington House in Margate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fire crews are tackling a blaze near a busy amusement park and an abandoned shopping centre this afternoon, with a neighbouring block of flats reportedly evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures show smoke billowing from behind Dreamland in Margate, next to Arlington House and the long-vacant Arlington Arcade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 4032 3024\" alt=\"Fire crews have been called to an area near Dreamland in Margate\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"M6RO3QXNTNQCJHD3ASE0.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.33\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/M6RO3QXNTNQCJHD3ASE0.jpg\" alt=\"Fire crews have been called to an area near Dreamland in Margate\"\/>Fire crews have been called to an area near Dreamland in Margate<\/p>\n<p>It is not thought the incident is related to the attraction, though multiple engines have been called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>One resident wrote on social media: \u201cOne of the old shops under Arlington House is on fire, all residents have been evacuated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kent Fire and Rescue Service and police have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews are tackling a blaze near a busy amusement park and an abandoned shopping centre this afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[308,309,1084,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8127","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-thanet","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116362763458054922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","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=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}