{"id":69332,"date":"2025-05-02T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69332\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:46:11","slug":"twenty-firefighters-tackle-sutton-park-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69332\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty firefighters tackle Sutton Park blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four fire crews called to tackle flames at Birmingham beauty spot<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_image00001jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters were called to the Banners Gate area of Sutton Park for the second time in three days after a blaze was reported close to a pathway at the end of a stretch of woods\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Firefighters were called to the Banners Gate area of Sutton Park for the second time in three days after a blaze was reported close to a pathway at the end of a stretch of woods<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A number of fire crews were called to a Birmingham beauty spot to tackle a fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">West Midlands Fire Service was called to a fire in the banners Gate area of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sutton-park\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Sutton Park<\/a> in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sutton-coldfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Sutton Coldfield<\/a> at around 5.30pm today, Friday, May 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It sent two crews from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/perry-barr\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Perry Barr<\/a>, one from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/erdington\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Erdington<\/a> and another from Ward End. The first arrived at the scene at 5.49pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/teacher-birmingham-school-banned-after-31562609\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Teacher banned after making inappropriate comments and threats to pupil<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/west-midlands-fire-service\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Fire Service<\/a> posted on X: \u201cWe currently have four pumps in attendance at Banners Gate in Sutton Park dealing with fire involving area of woodland approximately 20m x 30m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cTwo house reel jets currently in use. Crews making good progress. Please take care and avoid this area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The Service said the blaze involved a 200 square metre patch of grass and overgrowth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_image00003jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"During this week's hot spell two fires have been reported at Sutton Park near Banners Gate (pictured) \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>During this week&#8217;s hot spell two fires have been reported at Sutton Park near Banners Gate (pictured) <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The fire was along a path which leads from the Banners Gate car park around the end of woodland. A spokeswoman for the Service said: \u201cCrews used three hose reel jets to extinguish the fire. We had a drone there as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe last crew left the scene at 7.30pm \u2013 around an hour-and-a-half after we got there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cA crew has gone back to check the site and we have been liaising with park rangers as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=218d93d5-683b-44a9-b5bd-566f5c9e39e9&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get the latest Sutton Coldfield news delivered direct to your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The cause of the fire was not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It was the second fire in a similar location this week , with another reported on Wednesday evening, April 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">That too was said to be \u2018just up from Banners Gate, at the end of the woods\u2019 according to a Facebook user.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The fire service was also called into action to extinguish it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four fire crews called to tackle flames at Birmingham beauty spotFirefighters were called to the Banners Gate area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,7829,20657,16,15,13284],"class_list":{"0":"post-69332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-sutton-coldfield","13":"tag-sutton-park","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-fire-service"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69332","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=69332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}