{"id":258442,"date":"2025-07-12T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258442\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:20:10","slug":"25-fire-engines-and-150-firefighters-called-to-huge-blaze-on-erith-industrial-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258442\/","title":{"rendered":"25 fire engines and 150 firefighters called to huge blaze on Erith industrial estate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 150 firefighters tackled a huge blaze on an industrial estate.<\/p>\n<p>Flames engulfed a single-storey warehouse on a scrapyard in Erith, along with three diggers and numerous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1004 784\" alt=\"The fire took hold of a warehouse and a number of surrounding vehicles. Picture: London Fire Brigade\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"99PFU1VD5XO8AE3QDHNY.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.28\"\/>The fire took hold of a warehouse and a number of surrounding vehicles. Picture: London Fire Brigade<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five fire engines were involved in the emergency response on the Darent Industrial Park, with crews scrambled from Bexley and other surrounding stations.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents were advised to keep their windows and doors closed due to the amount of smoke being produced.<\/p>\n<p>Two 32-metre turntable ladders were deployed to provide a vantage point for assessing the scene and to deliver water from above.<\/p>\n<p>A fire boat was also called to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The first 999 calls about the fire were made shortly after 10.45pm last night.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze, which was brought under control by about 7am, is not yet known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 150 firefighters tackled a huge blaze on an industrial estate. Flames engulfed a single-storey warehouse on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[41573,252,495,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-258442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-bexley-and-bromley","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-kent","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114839291419766806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258442","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=258442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}