{"id":34523,"date":"2025-09-21T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34523\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:37:13","slug":"huge-strabane-blaze-closes-lifford-bridge-for-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34523\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Strabane blaze closes Lifford Bridge for a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Main pic: Emergency services tackling last night\u2019s blaze in Strabane. Credit: NI Emergency Response Vids (@NiResponsevids)<\/p>\n<p>Lifford Bridge was closed for a time yesterday evening as emergency services tackled a huge blaze at an industrial facility on the Strabane side of the border.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out on the Lifford Road, close to the Modern Tyres facility, at around 7:30pm and flames and thick smoke could be seen rising high into the sky. <\/p>\n<p>The main artery between Strabane and Lifford was also closed for a time as several units from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) attended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that the fire may have started in a container used for storage.<\/p>\n<p>The below, clip shared by NI Emergency Response Vids on X, reveals the extent of the blaze:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scenes in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Strabane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Strabane<\/a> area tonight at the ongoing fire <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GZKwHR9zAA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GZKwHR9zAA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NI Emergency Response Vids (@NiResponsevids) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NiResponsevids\/status\/1969485932463100354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huge Strabane blaze closes Lifford Bridge for a time was last modified:  September 21st, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main pic: Emergency services tackling last night\u2019s blaze in Strabane. Credit: NI Emergency Response Vids (@NiResponsevids) Lifford Bridge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11243,61,60,27059,43,27060],"class_list":["post-34523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donegal-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lifford-bridge","tag-news","tag-strabane-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523","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=34523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}