{"id":227611,"date":"2025-06-30T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227611\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:35:14","slug":"sixty-firefighters-tackle-blaze-near-the-m6-in-birmingham-as-police-close-roads-and-locals-told-to-shut-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227611\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty firefighters tackle blaze near the M6 in Birmingham as police close roads and locals told to shut windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/06\/29\/dramatic-moment-raging-flames-and-thick-black-smoke-pours-from-massive-tyres-blaze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Fire Service<\/a> received numerous calls reporting the incident in Erdington, near the M6 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, just before 5pm today (Monday, June 30).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The premises, on Tyburn Road, belongs to an office furniture company.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ad9f6a27-02bc-4995-8bc1-f78f8455d034.jpg\"   alt=\"A firefighter tests equipment at London Fire Brigade\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>12 fire engines are tackling a blaze in Birmingham this evening. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p>As of 6:30pm, around 12 fire engines and 60 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/uk-news\/2025\/06\/29\/firefighters-urge-government-to-tax-polluters-to-fund-struggling-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firefighters\u00a0<\/a>were involved in the operation to bring the fire under control.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the scene are police officers, who are assisting with a number of local road closures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to find alternative routes where possible while local residents are asked to keep doors and windows shut as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>This is an on-going incident. More to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Fire Service received numerous calls reporting the incident in Erdington, near the M6 in Birmingham, just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-227611","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-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114774470337313450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227611","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=227611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}