{"id":125527,"date":"2025-05-23T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125527\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:54:09","slug":"manchester-fire-live-smoke-seen-for-miles-as-blaze-rages-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125527\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester fire LIVE: Smoke seen for miles as blaze rages | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire has reportedly broken in Manchester this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke can be seen for miles around, with reports on social media suggesting it&#8217;s in the Victoria Mill area.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures and videos posted online show thick black smoke rising, with one witness saying: &#8220;Big fire near Victoria Mill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Mill\u00a0is a Grade II* listed 19th-century\u00a0cotton spinning mill\u00a0in\u00a0Miles Platting and has now been converted into offices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For all the latest updates, follow our live blog below.<\/strong><\/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><strong>Follow our social media accounts here on <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/DailyExpress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/DailyExpress<\/a> and @daily_express<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire has reportedly broken in Manchester this afternoon. Smoke can be seen for miles around, with reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[18672,2465,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-125527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-fire-news","10":"tag-manchester","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114557725159723805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125527","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=125527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}