{"id":633117,"date":"2025-12-15T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/633117\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:00:30","slug":"large-fire-breaks-out-in-walsall-with-public-told-avoid-the-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/633117\/","title":{"rendered":"Large fire breaks out in Walsall with public told &#8216;avoid the area&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple fire crews are at the blaze, believed to be at a factory in Bloxwich<\/p>\n<p>21:50, 14 Dec 2025Updated 21:52, 14 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1_sparkhilljfif.jpg\" alt=\"Ten fire crews are at the scene (Stock image)\" loading=\"eager\" \/>Ten fire crews are at the scene (Stock image)(Image: West Midlands Fire Service on X)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A large scale fire has broken out in Bloxwich tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ten fire crews are at the scene in Newfield Close, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/walsall\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Walsall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Local residents have reported the fire is at a factory in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The public have been told to avoid the area and nearby residents have been urged to close their windowds and doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">West Midlands Fire Service said in a statement: &#8220;We are currently dealing with a large scale incident in Newfield Close, Walsall where we currently have 10 fire appliances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We are advising that members of the public avoid the area, and local residents to close doors and windows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The fire service added that they are &#8216;making good progress&#8217; at the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple fire crews are at the blaze, believed to be at a factory in Bloxwich 21:50, 14 Dec&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,9163,17932,748,393,4884,16,15,10847,13284],"class_list":{"0":"post-633117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-black-country","10":"tag-bloxwich","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-walsall","17":"tag-west-midlands-fire-service"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115721354405019390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633117","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=633117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}