{"id":1173248,"date":"2026-08-28T00:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1173248\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T00:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:41:20","slug":"fire-crews-scrambled-after-blaze-in-basement-of-didsbury-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1173248\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews scrambled after blaze in basement of Didsbury house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews remain at the scene<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fire crews attended the scene on Didsbury Park\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0_image0-1jpeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Fire crews attended the scene on Didsbury Park\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Fire crews attended the scene on Didsbury Park(Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Fire crews have descended on a house in Didsbury after a blaze broke out in the basement this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Three fire engines were deployed to the property on Didsbury Park at around 6.51pm. Pictures from the scene show firefighters tending to the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The fire has since been extinguished. Crews remain at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a aria-label=\"Click hereLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=b8052254-66af-41f3-9dae-7bbb0e3391c6&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: \u201cShortly after 6:51pm this evening (Thursday 27 August), three fire engines from <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/withington\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Withington<\/a> and <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/wythenshawe\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Wythenshawe<\/a> fire stations were called to reports of a fire in the basement of a house on <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/didsbury\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Didsbury<\/a> Park in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fire crews attended the scene on Didsbury Park\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0_image2-1jpeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Fire crews attended the scene on Didsbury Park\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Fire crews attended the scene on Didsbury Park(Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cCrews arrived quickly at the scene. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel, an electric fan and a positive pressure ventilation fan to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cCrews have been in attendance for over 40 minutes and remain at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews remain at the scene Fire crews attended the scene on Didsbury Park(Image: Supplied) Fire crews have descended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1173249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,3041,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":["post-1173248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-didsbury","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117170360234289469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173248","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=1173248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}