{"id":115383,"date":"2025-05-19T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/115383\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:46:09","slug":"residents-told-to-avoid-the-area-as-smoke-billows-following-car-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/115383\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents told to &#8216;avoid the area&#8217; as smoke billows following car fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters were called out to Denton<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_denton.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Firefighters tackling a car fire(Image: Mark Williams)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Residents are being told to &#8216;avoid the area&#8217; after a car fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Firefighters were called to Lee Dale Close in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/denton-and-audenshaw\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Denton<\/a>, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/tameside\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Tameside<\/a>, to reports of a vehicle being ablaze. They remained at the scene tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Images from the scene show the road taped off by the fire service as smoke billowed from the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Members of the public are being &#8216;advised to avoid the area&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: \u201cShortly after 5:40pm this evening (Monday 19 May), five fire engines from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/ashton-and-mossley\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashton<\/a>, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/gorton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Gorton<\/a>, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/blackley\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackley<\/a> and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/hyde-and-longdendale\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Hyde<\/a> Fire Stations were called to attend a vehicle fire on Lee Dale Close, Denton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cCrews arrived quickly and used breathing apparatus and two hose reels to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cFirefighters are working <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> to make the area safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The public are advised to avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters were called out to DentonFirefighters tackling a car fire(Image: Mark Williams) Residents are being told to &#8216;avoid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1025,12,1026,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-115383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-denton-and-audenshaw","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tameside","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114536696064658557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115383","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=115383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}