{"id":465804,"date":"2026-05-25T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465804\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:30:13","slug":"firefighters-working-to-put-out-large-fire-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/465804\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters working to put out &#8216;large fire&#8217; in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has said it is currently working to extinguish a &#8220;large fire&#8221; in the Belfast port area.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported as result of the blaze, which is burning &#8220;in a large quantity of scrap metal&#8221; at Clearway Metal Recycling on the East Twin Road in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire is in a pile of scrap metal measuring approximately 50m x 50m,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Fire just now at recycling facility in Belfast port area <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtenews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@rtenews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q4MSozVAtK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Q4MSozVAtK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vincent Kearney (@vincekearney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vincekearney\/status\/2058543242455535952\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NIFRS said nine pumping appliances, an aerial appliance, a high volume pump and 60 firefighters are engaged in firefighting operations.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are using &#8220;a high volume pump&#8221; to put out the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public are encouraged to stay away from East Twin Road and those in the area should keep windows and doors closed.<\/p>\n<p>Operations will continue for some time, it said.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has said it is currently working to extinguish a &#8220;large fire&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-465804","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465804","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=465804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}