{"id":363870,"date":"2025-08-22T05:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363870\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:42:12","slug":"huge-fire-rips-through-suspected-cannabis-factory-in-east-london-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363870\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge fire rips through suspected cannabis factory in east London home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> 22 August 2025, 06:01  | Updated: 22 August 2025, 06:01 <\/p>\n<p> 22 August 2025, 06:01  | Updated: 22 August 2025, 06:01 <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The scene of a fire at a home in Walthamstow, east London\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"749164\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/749164\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    The scene of a fire at a home in Walthamstow, east London.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture:<br \/>\nLFB<\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">A huge blaze has broken out at a suspected cannabis farm at a house in east London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Twelve fire engines and around 80 firefighters were called to the mid-terraced property in Walthamstow shortly after 2am on Friday, according to the London Fire Brigade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Most of the ground floor, half of the home\u2019s first floor and the roof of the two-storey house in Knebworth Avenue were destroyed by the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">A brigade spokesperson said: \u201cCannabis factory fires can be particularly dangerous because of the way criminals use unsafe wiring to illegally obtain electricity in order to grow the plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/world-news\/putin-meet-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Putin &#8216;ready to meet Zelenskyy&#8217; as pressure mounts on Russian leader to agree Ukraine ceasefire<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/uk\/arson-woolton-house-merseyside\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Teenager arrested on suspicion of arson after manor house blaze<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"More than 70 firefighters arrived at the scene.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"749165\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/749165\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    More than 70 firefighters arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture:<br \/>\nLFB<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cThey\u2019re often in top floors or lofts which means when a fire takes hold it spreads, destroying roofs and damaging neighbouring buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cFirefighters can also be exposed to risks when dealing with the fires because of bad wiring and traps at some of the properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Control officers received calls just before 3am and the brigade said the fire was under control just before 5am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Crews from Walthamstow, Chingford, Woodford, Leyton, Tottenham, Edmonton, Homerton, Stratford, Enfield and Holloway fire stations attended the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"22 August 2025, 06:01 | Updated: 22 August 2025, 06:01 22 August 2025, 06:01 | Updated: 22 August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115070824948843291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363870","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=363870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}