{"id":53185,"date":"2025-04-20T13:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/birmingham-factory-blaze-leads-to-power-cut-at-380-homes\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:56:40","slug":"birmingham-factory-blaze-leads-to-power-cut-at-380-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/birmingham-factory-blaze-leads-to-power-cut-at-380-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham factory blaze leads to power cut at 380 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Dozens of firefighters are tackling a major blaze at a factory in Birmingham that has led to a power cut affecting nearly 400 homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Fifteen fire engines with about 75 crew members were sent to the single-storey industrial premises on Warwick Road, Sparkhill, at about 07:15 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">West Midlands Fire Service (WMAS) said the blaze was affecting about 40% of the factory and had spread to three separate businesses, although no casualties have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">At 13:30, WMAS confirmed the fire had also affected an electrical substation, which had been isolated remotely by the National Grid (NG), leaving 380 homes without power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Warwick Road has been closed in both directions between the junctions with the B4146 Tyseley Hill Road and B4146 Wharfadale Road, according to travel monitoring system Inrix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A West Midlands Police spokesperson said officers were supporting the fire service with the road closures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c705rkle9nvo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of firefighters are tackling a major blaze at a factory in Birmingham that has led to a power cut affecting nearly 400 homes. Fifteen fire engines with about 75 crew members were sent to the single-storey industrial premises on Warwick Road, Sparkhill, at about 07:15 BST. West Midlands Fire Service (WMAS) said the blaze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[1070,706,724,115,73,9186,550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53187,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53185\/revisions\/53187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}