{"id":99040,"date":"2025-05-13T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99040\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T21:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:09:14","slug":"avoid-the-area-four-fire-crews-in-attendance-as-house-ablaze-in-rowley-regis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99040\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Avoid the area&#8217; &#8211; Four fire crews in attendance as house ablaze in Rowley Regis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmfs.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Fire Service<\/a> have rushed to the scene of Brickhouse Road, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/rowley-regis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rowley Regis<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandwell<\/a>, at around 7.20pm to reports of a fire at a property on the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four crews are in attendance to the blaze, with the fire service asking everyone to &#8216;avoid the area&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/81ec1a01-939a-409a-9f61-196f6a7f7b92.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Fire Service spokesperson said: &#8220;We have four crews in attendance at Brickhouse Road, Rowley Regis, where they have responded to a house fire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/60a601ca-90d1-4e82-8345-6d93921cbd15.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please avoid the area, where possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Express &amp; Star, \u00a0a resident of the road said: &#8220;you could see the smoke pouring through the windows and doors, it was terrible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like most of it was coming from downstairs, I think everyone was okay, I hope they&#8217;re alright.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another resident added: \u00a0&#8220;There were about four fire vehicles, they got here really quickly, well done to them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2c5533d3-a489-4cb2-8c8a-4d2af6b5347d.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The smoke was everywhere, it was chaotic. I could see the owners grabbing stuff from the house, I hope they&#8217;re okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A third local said: &#8220;We don&#8217;t get many fires down here. Everyone was on the street when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looked terrible with all the smoke, you can see by the windows how hot it was. You can only hope they&#8217;re alright though.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services have been approached for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Midlands Fire Service have rushed to the scene of Brickhouse Road, Rowley Regis, in Sandwell, at around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,38544,12608,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-99040","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-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-rowley-regis","15":"tag-sandwell","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99040","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=99040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}