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A general view of Broadway in Walsall(Image: Google)<\/p>\nThe blaze broke out at a property on BroadwayA general view of Broadway in Walsall(Image: Google)<\/p>\n
A major road in Walsall was closed this morning as firefighters battled a huge house fire.<\/p>\n
The blaze broke out at a property on Broadway at around 4.30am today, May 25.<\/p>\n
At least five fire crews rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong>Man assaulted in e-bike robbery attempt in Kings Heath as police appeal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Locals were warned to keep their windows and doors closed and to avoid the area where possible.<\/p>\n Broadway was closed in both directions for several hours but has since reopened.<\/p>\n Firefighters were continuing to damp down hot spots in a bid to fully extinguish the blaze at 9am today.<\/p>\n West Midlands Fire Service wrote on social media platform X at 6am: “We have five appliances and a hydraulic platform in attendance at an incident on Broadway, Walsall involving a property fire.<\/p>\n “All residents are advised to keep windows and doors closed.<\/p>\n “There is a total road closure in both directions of the carriageway on Broadway.”<\/p>\n It later added: “Crews have been working hard to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n “Damping down of hot spots continues, and the incident has been scaled down to two appliances and a hydraulic platform.<\/p>\n “Broadway, Walsall has now been reopened.”<\/p>\n Fire control told BirminghamLive<\/a> that the fire service was first called to the scene at 4.30am.<\/p>\n It was unable to confirm the cause of the blaze at this time.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Staffordshire<\/a> Fire and Rescue Service added: “We have 5 crews and a Hydraulic Platform in attendance at Broadway, Walsall<\/a>, where they have responded to a property fire.<\/p>\n “Please avoid the area, where possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blaze broke out at a property on BroadwayA general view of Broadway in Walsall(Image: Google) A major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,10847,13284],"class_list":{"0":"post-132127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-walsall","15":"tag-west-midlands-fire-service"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114571786615307492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132127","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=132127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}