{"id":337377,"date":"2025-08-12T03:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337377\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:09:23","slug":"theres-been-funny-goings-on-in-that-house-but-this-is-the-worst-thing-thats-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337377\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There&#8217;s been funny goings on in that house but this is the worst thing that&#8217;s happened&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police and fire crews were called to Platt Lane in Fallowfield in the early hours of the morning<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_JRP_MEN_110825_fire_003JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Crews at the scene on Platt Lane\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Crews at the scene on Platt Lane(Image: Jason Roberts \/Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Residents were woken up in the middle of the night after the roof of a home suddenly burst into flames. Emergency services rushed to Platt Lane in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/fallowfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Fallowfield<\/a> following reports of the blaze in the early hours of the morning (August 11).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Firefighters and police <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/greater-manchester-news\/live-street-taped-crews-spend-32239736\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">were in attendance well into the afternoon<\/a> while a cordon was in place. Images from the scene show the roof of a house appears to be severely damaged following the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking to the M.E.N. about the moment the fire erupted, one resident said: &#8220;There was smoke everywhere. It went really high and then police and fire came.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I have to say, the fire service has been fantastic dealing with this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_JRP_MEN_110825_fire_007JPG.jpg\" alt=\"A cordon in place following a fire on Platt Lane\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>A cordon in place following a fire on Platt Lane(Image: Jason Roberts \/Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">According to locals, the affected house was a derelict building which is &#8216;known to the police&#8217;. &#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of comings and goings in that house,&#8221; one person told the M.E.N.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The house is known to the police because I&#8217;ve called them about it before.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_GyCpYCKWMAA90_E.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke billowing from the house on Platt Lane at around 4.30am\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Smoke billowing from the house on Platt Lane at around 4.30am(Image: submitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We&#8217;ve heard shouting and noise from there but this is probably the worst thing that&#8217;s happened there. There&#8217;s been funny goings on in there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Another resident said: &#8220;I drove past here at around 7.30am. There was smoke coming from the top of that house and fire we\u2019re using a Cherry picker to get up there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I didn\u2019t see any ambulance and the most important thing is nobody was hurt&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_JRP_MEN_110825_fire_006JPG.jpg\" alt=\"A cordon in place following a fire on Platt Lane\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>A cordon in place following a fire on Platt Lane(Image: Jason Roberts \/Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said: &#8220;Shortly after 3.15am on Monday, August 11, five fire engines from across Greater Manchester were called to attend a house fire on Platt Lane, Manchester.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_JRP_MEN_110825_fire_005JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Damage caused to a house on Platt Lane following a fire\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Damage caused to a house on Platt Lane following a fire(Image: Jason Roberts \/Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cCrews arrived quickly and used two hose reels, breathing apparatus and a specialist scorpion appliance to extinguish the fire. Firefighters remain in attendance at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and fire crews were called to Platt Lane in Fallowfield in the early hours of the morningCrews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,8855,4884,11566,187,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-fallowfield","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greater-manchester-fire-service","13":"tag-greater-manchester-police","14":"tag-manchester","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115013600695131618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337377","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=337377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}