{"id":187133,"date":"2025-06-15T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187133\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T19:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:44:19","slug":"firefighters-race-to-another-blaze-at-famous-fire-stricken-manchester-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187133\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters race to another blaze at &#8216;famous&#8217; fire-stricken Manchester venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old Vasa club now lays derelict<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2025-06-15-at-165116jpeg.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The old Vasa club pictured this afternoon(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Firefighters descended on a blaze-stricken derelict former Manchester venue again following another fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The old Vasa club in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/blackley\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackley<\/a> erupted into flames in April last year. There was a major emergency services presence following a huge blaze at the building on White Moss Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Another fire broke out at the site this afternoon. Firefighters were called out at 3.45pm and found rubbish ablaze within the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They spent about 40 minutes tackling the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: \u201cShortly after 3:45pm this afternoon (Sunday 14th June), three fire engines from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-central\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester Central<\/a> and Broughton fire stations were called to reports of a fire in a derelict building on White Moss Road, Manchester.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2_JH_MEN_030424_BLACKLEY-FIREJPG.jpg\" alt=\"The blaze ripped through the building on Wednesday night\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The blaze ripped through the building in April last year(Image: Kadyn Farnhill)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cFirefighters arrived quickly and use one hose reel to extinguish the fire involving a small quantity of rubbish within the building. Firefighters were in attendance for around forty minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/harpurhey\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Harpurhey<\/a> councillor Pat Karney was among those who reminisced about the venue in the aftermath of last year&#8217;s blaze. He said: &#8220;One of the most famous venues in north Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;So many people will have great memories of the centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;What a shame it has ended up like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police launched an investigation into the cause of the huge fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The old Vasa club now lays derelictThe old Vasa club pictured this afternoon(Image: Manchester Evening News) Firefighters descended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[1833,748,393,4884,11566,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-187133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-blackley","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greater-manchester-fire-service","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114689098811763425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187133","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=187133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}