{"id":840819,"date":"2026-08-01T17:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840819\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:44:09","slug":"crews-tackle-1-5-hectare-wildfire-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840819\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews tackle 1.5-hectare wildfire in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters are tackling a wildfire in Surrey, which has spread across 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to Upper Halliford Road, in Shepperton, at 14:40 BST following reports of a blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire service urged people to avoid the area and recommended that those living nearby should close doors and windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several fire and rescue vehicles are at the scene, including fire engines and specialist wildfire vehicles, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow BBC Surrey on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCSurrey\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, on <a data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSurrey\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>. Send your story ideas to <a data-ylk=\"slk:southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/mailto:southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk <\/a>or WhatsApp us on 08081 002250.<\/p>\n<p>Related internet links<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are tackling a wildfire in Surrey, which has spread across 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres). Surrey Fire and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,84568,87674,292860,11311],"class_list":["post-840819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fire-engines","tag-surrey","tag-surrey-fire-and-rescue-service","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}