{"id":157549,"date":"2025-06-04T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157549\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:09:10","slug":"three-fire-engines-rush-to-high-rise-flats-in-birmingham-after-air-fryer-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157549\/","title":{"rendered":"Three fire engines rush to high-rise flats in Birmingham after air fryer catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blaze began in the kitchen of a seventh-floor flat on The Priory <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queensway\u00a0<\/a>on Tuesday (June 3).<\/p>\n<p>Three fire engines and a 4&#215;4 brigade response vehicle were sent to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/fire-crews-called-to-blaze-in-tall-building-in-birmingham-city-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scene shortly after midnight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dab17f96-2bda-44b4-850f-7644828c6f64.png\"   alt=\"The Priory Queensway in Birmingham. Photo: Google\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The Priory Queensway in Birmingham. Photo: Google<\/p>\n<p>A sprinkler system within the building helped to supress the fire before firefighters arrive, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmfs.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Fire Service<\/a> spokesman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A man and woman who were in the apartment at the time of the blaze had safely left before the arrival of fire crews.<\/p>\n<p>The fire service spokesman added: &#8220;They suffered no injuries, but had minor smoke inhalation. The building manager was at the scene and arranged salvage and rehousing of affected residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire was confirmed to be accidental. Our crews left the scene at around 2.15am.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blaze began in the kitchen of a seventh-floor flat on The Priory Queensway\u00a0on Tuesday (June 3). Three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,728,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-157549","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-environment","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114625260160609927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157549","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=157549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}