{"id":1186101,"date":"2026-09-04T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1186101\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:36:16","slug":"birmingham-city-centre-roads-shut-as-crews-tackle-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1186101\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham city centre roads shut as crews tackle blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Firefighters are tackling a large blaze that has forced road closures and is sending plumes of thick smoke into the sky above Birmingham city centre.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of crews have been called to Great Hampton Street, near the city&#8217;s Jewellery Quarter, West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The road is closed as well as a number nearby, including Barr Street and Constitution Hill between Northwood Street and Halford Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The public has been urged by WMFS to avoid the area and warned them not to fly drones nearby as a fire service drone was in operation and others being used in the area could hamper work to bring the blaze under control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are tackling a large blaze that has forced road closures and is sending plumes of thick smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1186102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-1186101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117213042317043676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186101","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=1186101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}