{"id":515539,"date":"2026-03-03T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515539\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:52:10","slug":"explosions-spark-emergency-evacuation-warning-in-north-geelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515539\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions spark emergency evacuation warning in North Geelong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An emergency warning has been issued for parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/geelong\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Geelong \">Geelong<\/a> after a number of explosions occurred at a scrap car yard.<\/p>\n<p>VicEmergency urged anyone in the vicinity of Thompson Road and Armstrong Street in North Geelong to leave immediately after multiple gas bottles \ufeffblew up around 3.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crews arrived on scene within five minutes to find a vehicle on the back of a truck on fire with flames spreading to nearby gas bottles causing multiple explosions,&#8221; Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e209f8a0-3439-4b6e-b79e-638099c1b737.png\"   alt=\"car yard fire North Geelong\"\/>An emergency warning has been issued for parts of Geelong after a number of explosions occurred at a scrap car yard. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>Eight firetrucks are on scene trying to contain the blaze.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You will see black smoke,&#8221; Fire Rescue Victoria warned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not enter the area, it is extremely dangerous&#8221;.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Police and paramedics are also on scene.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Thompson Road, Armstrong Street and Pashley Avenue are all closed.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffPeople in the area are urged to travel away from the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are away from home, do not return,&#8221; the warning read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are driving, shut all windows, turn off your air conditioning and close the vents. Immediately leave the warning area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emergency warning has been issued for parts of Geelong after a number of explosions occurred at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-515539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}