{"id":98485,"date":"2025-05-13T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/98485\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:22:03","slug":"birtley-fire-live-horror-blaze-seen-for-miles-as-thick-black-smoke-billows-into-air-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/98485\/","title":{"rendered":"Birtley fire LIVE: Horror blaze seen for miles as thick black smoke billows into air | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyne and Wear Fire Service has urged locals to keep their windows and doors closed &#8211; and warned that emergency services will remain at the scene for &#8220;several hours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said: \u201cWe can confirm that five fire appliances \u2013 including an Aerial Ladder Platform and a High Volume Pump \u2013 are in attendance of an ongoing fire at an industrial unit in Birtley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Control Room received a 999 call at 14:54 hours and the first crew arrived within six minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrews have been deployed from Birtley, Swalwell, Washington, Gateshead and Marley Park Community Fire Stations and we expect to be on scene for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently working with colleagues at Northumbria Police during this incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be mindful of traffic congestion in the area whilst the incident is ongoing and if you live in the area affected by the smoke, keep windows and doors closed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyne and Wear Fire Service has urged locals to keep their windows and doors closed &#8211; and warned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[6962,18672,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-98485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-emergency-news","10":"tag-fire-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114501448095402459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98485","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=98485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}