{"id":154322,"date":"2025-06-03T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154322\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T08:21:11","slug":"firefighters-rush-to-building-blaze-in-birmingham-city-centre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154322\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters rush to building blaze in Birmingham city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four fire crews rushed to tackle a blaze at a ‘tall building’ in Birmingham city centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It broke out at a building near The Priory Queensway<\/a> and Exchange Square<\/a> shortly after midnight this morning, Tuesday, June 3.<\/p>\n

West Midlands Fire Service urged people to avoid the area during the incident.<\/p>\n

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The Priory Queensway in Birmingham city centre -Credit:Google<\/p>\n

The fire service had left the scene by around 1.30am.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the fire service wrote on social media platform X at 1.07am: “We have four crews in attendance at The Priory Queensway, Birmingham<\/a>, where they have responded to a fire in a tall building.<\/p>\n

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“Please avoid the area where possible.”<\/p>\n

Fire control confirmed to BirminghamLive that the blaze had been extinguished but was unable to specify exactly where it had broken out.<\/p>\n

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It said: “Crews, along with a fire officer, were first called out at 12.16am.<\/p>\n

“This was a fire at a building near Exchange Square and Priory Queensway.<\/p>\n

“No casualties were reported. Crews had left the scene by 1.30am.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four fire crews rushed to tackle a blaze at a ‘tall building’ in Birmingham city centre. It broke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,983,748,393,26243,45951,158,4884,65654,65653,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-exchange-square","13":"tag-fire-crews","14":"tag-fire-service","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-priory-queensway","17":"tag-tall-building","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114618465260716092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154322","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=154322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}