{"id":309865,"date":"2026-02-21T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309865\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:07:09","slug":"investigation-after-fire-at-commercial-premises-in-armagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309865\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation after fire at commercial premises in Armagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a fire in Co Armagh which was tackled by more than 50 firefighters overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from counties Armagh, Tyrone and Down were called to the incident in the village of in Milford in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Northern Ireland Fire &amp; Rescue Service (NIFRS) said 25 firefighters remain at the scene but they &#8220;expect to scale the incident down further over the next few hours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The PSNI is investigating the fire which broke out at a commercial premises on Ballyards Road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The blaze broke out at a commercial premises in Milford, Co Armagh \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023ee7d-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe PSNI is investigating the fire (Photo: BBC)<\/p>\n<p>Chief Inspector John Keers said the NIFRS remain at the scene and &#8220;enquiries are continuing to establish the circumstances&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to anyone with information to contact the force.<\/p>\n<p>The NIFRS said they were alerted to the blaze at 3.45am and it was attended by crews from Armagh, Keady, Portadown, Banbridge, Dungannon, Newtownhamilton, Lisburn, and a water tanker from Pomeroy was brought in to help keep it under control.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents have been advised to keep windows and doors closed and members of the public are asked to avoid the area to help firefighters focus on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a fire in Co Armagh which was tackled by more than 50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-309865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}