{"id":639404,"date":"2025-12-18T02:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:38:15","slug":"bristol-university-building-evacuated-after-smoke-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639404\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol University building evacuated after &#8216;smoke&#8217; incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The university said it will be investigating the cause of the incident<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Bristol-Universitys-Queens-Building.jpg\" alt=\"Bristol University's Queen's Building\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Bristol University&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Building(Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Bristol University building was evacuated earlier today (December 17) after a smoke alarm was set off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Crews from Avon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene at the university&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Building after a fire alarm was activated by a &#8220;small amount of smoke&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The university has confirmed the building was evacuated as a precaution and no one was hurt during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It added that the incident was contained and did not cause any damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/university-of-bristol\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">University of Bristol<\/a> said: \u201c<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-fire-and-rescue\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Avon Fire and Rescue<\/a> was called to our Queen&#8217;s Building after a fire alarm was activated by a small amount of smoke this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe building was evacuated as a precaution and no one was hurt. We will be investigating the cause of the incident, which thankfully was contained and hasn\u2019t caused any damage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The university said it will be investigating the cause of the incidentBristol University&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Building(Image: Google Street View)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15,25179],"class_list":{"0":"post-639404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-university-of-bristol"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115738254842597889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639404","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=639404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}