{"id":111061,"date":"2025-05-18T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111061\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T06:55:07","slug":"smethwick-fire-live-huge-blaze-near-birmingham-as-locals-told-shut-doors-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111061\/","title":{"rendered":"Smethwick fire LIVE: Huge blaze near Birmingham as locals told &#8216;shut doors&#8217; | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge fire has ignited in Smethwick near Birmingham, with locals residents being told to avoid the area, while also keeping their doors and windows closed.<\/p>\n<p>Around 60 firefighters and 12 crews are battling the blaze on Anderson Road in Smethwick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the latest news and breaking news visit:<\/strong>\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News &#8211; Latest UK &amp; World News Stories | Express.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay up to date with all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow our social media accounts here on<\/strong> <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/DailyExpress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>facebook.com\/DailyExpress<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and @\u200cDaily_Express<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A huge fire has ignited in Smethwick near Birmingham, with locals residents being told to avoid the area,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,6962,393,18672,4884,50419,50420,50418,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-111061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-emergency-news","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-fire-news","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-smethwick-blaze","15":"tag-smethwick-emergency","16":"tag-smethwick-fire","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114527530162380115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}