{"id":379794,"date":"2025-08-28T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379794\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:56:11","slug":"crouch-end-dresden-road-flat-fire-firefighters-rescue-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379794\/","title":{"rendered":"Crouch End Dresden Road flat fire: Firefighters rescue man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Around 25 firefighters rushed to a terraced house split into flats on Dresden Road around 7.30pm on August 26.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The fire damaged a four room flat on the basement and ground floor of the building.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The man was rescued by firefighters wearing breathing equipment and then treated at the scene by paramedics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The nature of his injuries and his condition is not yet known.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Firefighters from Holloway, Kentish Town and Hornsey brought the incident under control by 9.15pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The fire is thought to have been caused by the unsafe disposal of smoking materials.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: \u201cFour fire engines and around 25 firefighters responded to a fire on Dresden Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe fire occurred in a terraced house of four floors, which had been converted into flats.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cA four roomed flat occupying the basement and ground floor levels of the property was damaged by fire.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cA man was rescued from the building by firefighters wearing breathing apparatus and treated on scene by paramedics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Brigade received the first of two calls reporting the fire at 1936, and Control Officers mobilised crews from Holloway, Kentish Town and Hornsey to the scene.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFirefighters were able to bring the incident under control by 2115.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe fire is believed to have been accidental, caused by the unsafe disposal of smoking materials.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 25 firefighters rushed to a terraced house split into flats on Dresden Road around 7.30pm on August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-379794","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\/115105325731614351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379794","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=379794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}