{"id":80116,"date":"2025-05-06T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80116\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:06:15","slug":"third-fire-at-birmingham-beauty-spot-in-a-week-as-witnesses-look-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80116\/","title":{"rendered":"Third fire at Birmingham beauty spot in a week as witnesses look on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third fire in less than a week ripped through a section of Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfieild<\/p>\n<p>20:10, 06 May 2025Updated 20:11, 06 May 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1_image4_censored.jpg\" alt=\"The third fire in a week has taken place at Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The third fire in a week has taken place at Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield(Image: William Bowler )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A third fire in a week has taken place at a popular <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> beauty spot with fears the latest blaze was started deliberately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The fire took hold in Sutton Park 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> tonight, Tuesday, May 6, by the model aircraft field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Around an acre of \u2018coarse ground\u2019 was well alight with West Midlands Fire Service receiving several calls to the incident.<\/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\/twenty-firefighters-tackle-sutton-park-31563515\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Twenty firefighters tackle Sutton Park blaze<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A witness at the scene, William Bowler, said: \u201cThe fire lasted for around 15 minutes before the fire brigade arrived to put it out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cMany of the people I was speaking to as well as my brother said he saw multiple young men or boys leaving the area on scooters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThey believe they started this fire but I cannot be sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">West Midlands Fire Service sent one crew from Sutton Coldfield to the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1_image7_censored.jpg\" alt=\"Onlookers watch as a big plume of smoke rises from a fire in Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Onlookers watch as a big plume of smoke rises from a fire in Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield (Image: William Bowler )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A spokeswoman for the service said: \u201cWe received three calls to the incident the first at 5.34pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOne acre of coarse ground was well alight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cFire officers used one hose reel jet to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe have no information on how the fire started. We left the scene at 6.24pm.\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 \">It followed two blazes in Sutton Park last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The first took place near Banners Gate on the evening of Wednesday, April 30 with the fire service called to tackle it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Then on Friday, May 2, some four fire crews with around 20 firefighters were called to tackle a fire in woodland along a path from the Banners Gate car park at around 5.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">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 attended, along with a drone operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers used three hose reel jets to put the fire out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third fire in less than a week ripped through a section of Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfieild&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,7829,20657,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-80116","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114462928785264398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80116","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=80116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}