{"id":349128,"date":"2025-08-16T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349128\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:30:12","slug":"arsonists-targeting-5g-masts-in-northern-ireland-putting-public-at-serious-risk-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349128\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsonists targeting 5G masts in Northern Ireland putting public \u2018at serious risk\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">Arsonists targeting 5G masts are putting themselves and the public \u201cat serious risk\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\">police<\/a> have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">The warning comes after a 5G tower was set alight in the Beechmount Avenue area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/belfast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/belfast\/\">Belfast<\/a> on Saturday morning, shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">It is the latest in a series of similar arson incidents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/northern-ireland\/\">Northern Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">Detectives are appealing to the public for information about the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">Detective Inspector Wilson said: \u201cOfficers attended the scene, along with colleagues from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, who extinguished the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">\u201cThis is just one of a number of 5G masts that have been set on fire recently and I cannot emphasise enough the dangers of lighting fire to electrical equipment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">\u201cThis is extremely reckless and those responsible are putting themselves and members of the public at serious risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph  \">\u201cWe are treating this as arson and I am appealing to anyone who may have witnessed anyone suspicious in the area or anyone with CCTV or other footage that could assist with inquiries are asked to contact detectives on 101 quoting reference 37 16\/08\/25.\u201d \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsonists targeting 5G masts are putting themselves and the public \u201cat serious risk\u201d, police have said. The warning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[54357,2378,1144,75955,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-349128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim","9":"tag-belfast","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115038455382017369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349128","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=349128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}