{"id":28619,"date":"2019-02-28T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28619"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:52:01","slug":"blaze-in-tyseley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/28\/blaze-in-tyseley\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaze in Tyseley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A huge fire broke out at a car workshop in Birmingham early hours of the morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roads have been closed in\u00a0Whardale Road, Tyseley, where around 100 firefighters were at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No-one was hurt but the scene of the blaze was closed, along with Rushey Lane and Redfern Road.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out at around 3am and the\u00a0premises were totally destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Griffiths, incident commander, said the blaze involved a car workshop which had been totally destroyed. Mr Griffiths said: &#8220;It started at 3am, we were mobilised to a significant fire.<\/p>\n<p>Our first fire engine was here in under two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Approximately 100 fire fighters were involved at the height of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The building in question, a car workshop, has been totally destroyed. \u201cWe managed to save around four surrounding buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s now under control and over the next four hours we will be undertaking investigations and looking to return the local area to normality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are cordons in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Due to the heat generated by the fire homes opposite on Whardale Road had their front windows cracked.<\/p>\n<p>One resident, mum-of-two Shiraz Bi, said:\u201dIt was so scary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy two kids were shaking and were saying \u2018mommy what\u2019s happening\u2019 and grabbed daddy and me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flames were really high. \u201cMy front bedroom window is cracked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was standing outside &#8211; it was a nightmare\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Fire Service tweeted overnight: \u201cWe currently have 18 fire appliances, 2 aerials, the high volume pump &amp; tech rescue crews in attendance at a large industrial fire in Wharfdale Road, Tyseley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents are advised to keep all windows and doors shut. Local road closures in place, avoid the area!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge fire broke out at a car workshop in Birmingham early hours of the morning. Roads have been closed in\u00a0Whardale Road, Tyseley, where around 100 firefighters were at the scene. No-one was hurt but the scene of the blaze was closed, along with Rushey Lane and Redfern Road. The fire broke out at around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,2013,1363],"class_list":["post-28619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-tyseley","tag-west-midlands-fire-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}