{"id":92611,"date":"2025-05-11T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92611\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T11:30:10","slug":"broad-street-blocked-by-fire-engines-in-early-morning-fire-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92611\/","title":{"rendered":"Broad Street blocked by fire engines in early-morning fire drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two fire engines were seen on Broad Street, at around 12.30am today<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1_bp1JPG.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Fire crews at the scene of the incident at BrindleyPlace(Image: Anil Verma)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Fire engines dashed to a blaze in Birmingham city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two trucks were parked on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/broad-street-birmingham\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Broad Street<\/a> at around 12.30am, today, Sunday, May 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Crews found a bin on fire outside the Indian restaurant Qavali, based on neighbouring Brindleyplace.<\/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\/black-country\/walsall-brothel-busted-police-arrest-31612184\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Walsall brothel busted as police arrest 20 in organised crime operation<\/a><\/strong><\/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\/forever-15-tribute-biker-killed-31612945\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Forever 15&#8217; tribute to biker killed in Redditch crash as crowdfunder closes in on \u00a34k<\/a><\/strong><\/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\/security-place-24-7-after-31599108\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Security in place 24\/ 7 after travellers move onto University of Birmingham land<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Crews appeared on Cumberland Street, to the side of the eatery, as they dealt with the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It was not thought the fire affected the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A fire service spokeswoman told BirminghamLive today: &#8220;We were called to a bin on fire, near to the Indian restaurant Qavali, in Brindleyplace, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_bp2JPG.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>A fire engine on Broad Street following an incident in nearby BrindleyPlace(Image: Anil Verma)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;It was next to an external canopy of the restaurant. It didn&#8217;t affect the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We had two trucks in attendance, just before 12.30am today, and the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a>, <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We left it in the hands of the restaurant&#8217;s security team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The stop came in at 12.51am.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two fire engines were seen on Broad Street, at around 12.30am todayFire crews at the scene of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,983,43759,748,393,4884,16,15,13284],"class_list":{"0":"post-92611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","10":"tag-brindleyplace","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-midlands-fire-service"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114488975570596859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92611","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=92611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}