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Police pictured at Queenshill Road this afternoon (Friday, April 18).<\/p>\nPolice were called to the scene after reports of a firePolice pictured at Queenshill Road this afternoon (Friday, April 18).<\/p>\n
A man has been arrested after 78 homes were evacuated this afternoon (Friday, April 18) in Knowle<\/a> in South Bristol.<\/p>\n Police were called to the scene at around 2.10pm by the fire service following reports of a blaze at a property in Queenshill Road.<\/p>\n Firefighters had alerted police to the scene after they discovered ‘potential suspected ordnance’ at the property.<\/p>\n Emergency services decided to establish a cordon and evacuate residents living nearby – which included 78 homes within Queenshill Road, Somerdale Avenue, Queensdale Crescent and Spring Gardens.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> said: “A number of homes in Knowle have been evacuated after information was received of potential ordnance in a property in Queenshill Road.<\/p>\n “We were called by the fire service at 2.10pm today (18 April) after it received a report of a fire at the property.<\/p>\n Sign up to receive daily news updates and breaking news alerts straight to your inbox for free here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOfficers supported the fire service in establishing a cordon around the property and the evacuation of the 78 houses within it.<\/p>\n “This includes Queenshill Road, Somerdale Avenue, Queensdale Crescent and Spring Gardens.<\/p>\n \u201cAbout 30 minutes after the initial report, officers were told of the potential for suspected ordnance to be in the property affected by the fire.<\/p>\n “The cordon remains in place while enquiries to establish this are ongoing.<\/p>\n \u201cOfficers have arrested a man aged in his 40s and he remains in police custody.\u201d<\/p>\n As of 6.45pm police confirmed that the cordon has now been removed and residents have been able to safely return to their homes.<\/p>\n Click here to join our WhatsApp group<\/a>Privacy Notice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to the scene after reports of a firePolice pictured at Queenshill Road this afternoon (Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,18680,381,748,393,4884,16656,10002,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-31487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-avon-fire-and-rescue","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-knowle","15":"tag-south-bristol","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114361644060392904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31487","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=31487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}