{"id":146504,"date":"2025-05-31T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T09:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146504\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T09:57:17","slug":"fire-ongoing-at-derelict-ni-school-as-road-closed-and-advice-issued-to-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146504\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire ongoing at derelict NI school as road closed and advice issued to residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The main entrance at the former Faughan Valley High School site in Drumahoe outside Derry<\/p>\n

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Around 50 firefighters are tackling a blaze at the site of a former school on the outskirts of Derry.<\/p>\n

The Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) said they were called shortly before 5am this morning to attend a fire at the former Faughan Valley school in Drumahoe.<\/p>\n

Forty-five firefighters were in attendance with six pumping appliances and one aerial appliance also dispatched.<\/p>\n

The Drumahoe Road is currently closed at the junctions with the Glenshane Road and the Fincairn Road due to the fire at the derelict premises.<\/p>\n

The Police Service of Northern Ireland are advising local residents to keep windows.<\/p>\n

The abandoned school was hit with a suspected arson attack in March last year<\/a> police appealing for witnesses in the aftermath of the blaze.<\/p>\n

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The main entrance at the former Faughan Valley High School site in Drumahoe outside Derry<\/p>\n

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The 2024 attack required a similar NIFRS response with around 50 firefighters sent to douse the flames alongside seven pumping appliances, one aerial appliance and a command support unit.<\/p>\n

A PSNI spokesperson said at the time: “Fortunately, there have been no reports of any injuries. However, there has been significant damage to the building as a result of the blaze.<\/p>\n

“The fire is being treated as arson and we’re appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time and saw any suspicious activity, or has any information, to contact us.\u201d<\/p>\n

A NIFRS spokesman added at the time the cause of last year\u2019s fire was “deliberate ignition”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 The main entrance at the former Faughan Valley High School site in Drumahoe outside Derry Around 50…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1817,63017,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-146504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-derry-news","9":"tag-john-toner","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114601855967011869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146504","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=146504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}