{"id":257930,"date":"2025-07-12T03:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257930\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T03:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:49:14","slug":"crews-tackle-huge-late-night-blaze-at-industrial-estate-with-warehouse-cranes-and-vehicles-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257930\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews tackle huge late-night blaze at industrial estate with warehouse, cranes and vehicles on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-2541\/index.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TOM LAWRENCE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  20:16 EDT, 11 July 2025   |  Updated:  20:58 EDT, 11 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Around 150 firefighters are tackling a huge late-night blaze at an industrial estate in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\" id=\"mol-85f98860-5eb5-11f0-aad2-891cd6ef3faa\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A warehouse has caught fire along with a crane and several other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A large emergency response including 25 fire engines rushed to Erith at around 10.45pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Three of the London Fire Brigade&#8217;s 32-metre turntable ladders have been deployed to provide a vantage point for assessing the scene and to deliver water from above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Local residents are being advised to keep their windows and doors closed where possible due to smoke being produced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade said: &#8216;The Brigade&#8217;s Control Officers took the first of 10 calls to the fire and mobilised crews from Bexley, Erith, Plumstead, East Greenwich, Sidcup and surrounding fire stations to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The cause of the fire is not known at this time.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They added that it is likely to be a &#8216;protracted incident&#8217; with crews on scene throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The industrial estate is home to around 20 businesses, including garages, repair shops and recycling centres.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-93ab2f2b6dd7a438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100242807-14898757-image-a-74_1752279603834.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Around 150 firefighters have rushed to tackle a huge blaze at a London warehouse\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Around 150 firefighters have rushed to tackle a huge blaze at a London warehouse<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7af95a6b6bd0dab1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100243343-14898757-image-a-76_1752281091664.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\" alt=\"A large emergency response including 25 fire engines rushed to Erith at around 10.45pm on Friday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A large emergency response including 25 fire engines rushed to Erith at around 10.45pm on Friday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e4d35bb01bd20c41\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100243341-14898757-image-a-77_1752281095054.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Fire crews are expected to remain on the scene throughout the night\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Fire crews are expected to remain on the scene throughout the night<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ba4c4e56fca0d110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100243279-14898757-image-a-75_1752280939061.jpg\" height=\"1108\" width=\"634\" alt=\"A huge cloud of smoke was seen from across the River Thames\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A huge cloud of smoke was seen from across the River Thames<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Crews tackle huge late-night blaze at industrial estate with warehouse, cranes and vehicles on fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By TOM LAWRENCE Published: 20:16 EDT, 11 July 2025 | Updated: 20:58 EDT, 11 July 2025 Around 150&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[92,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-257930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114838225947046236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257930","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=257930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}