{"id":117119,"date":"2025-05-20T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117119\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:05:12","slug":"birmingham-fire-building-evacuated-as-firefighters-rush-to-scene-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117119\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham fire: Building evacuated as firefighters rush to scene | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters have been battling a major blaze at a factory building in Rea Street South, Digbeth, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple emergency calls were received just before 9am, prompting the initial dispatch of 10 fire crews to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The response was later stepped up to 12 crews, supported by four additional vehicles and around 50 firefighters in total.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is affecting two floors of the three-storey building, which sits next to the Islamic Relief headquarters on the same street.<\/p>\n<p>Drone footage shows severe damage to the roof and visible destruction across the upper levels of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters have been battling a major blaze at a factory building in Rea Street South, Digbeth, on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,52575,1500,748,52576,393,18672,19960,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-117119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-fire","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-building-evacuation","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-fire-news","15":"tag-firefighters","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114540309658918978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117119","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=117119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}