{"id":315656,"date":"2025-08-03T22:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315656\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:40:17","slug":"firefighters-battle-fire-in-derelict-building-in-seacombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/315656\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle fire in derelict building in Seacombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Four fire crews and an aerial ladder platform were called to reports of a fire in a disused building on Dock Road at 5.51pm on Saturday, August 3.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Arriving at the two-story building just four minutes later, two firefighters wearing oxygen masks went in to tackle the blaze from the inside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A service drone was used to assess the progress of the blaze, and the building was split into sectors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dock Road was closed in both directions, and the public was advised to avoid the area. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service reported the fire was put out by 7.11pm, and the crews had left the scene by 7.36pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Its spokesman said: \u201cCrews were alerted a 5.51pm and arrived on scene at 5.55pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFour fire engines, an aerial appliance, and the service drone were at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cCrews arrived to find a two storey derelict building involved in fire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cTwo firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were immediately committed to the property to fight the fire using a main branch hose.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe incident was sectorised, with two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus fighting the fire internally using a main branch, and additional external firefighting using a hose reel jet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>\u201c<\/strong>The fire was extinguished by 19.11 and breathing apparatus use was ceased.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cCrews remained on scene to monitor temperatures and used the service drone to confirm the fire was extinguished.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cCrews the left the scene at 19.36.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four fire crews and an aerial ladder platform were called to reports of a fire in a disused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-315656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114967244426921689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315656","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=315656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}