{"id":292220,"date":"2025-11-30T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292220\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:58:07","slug":"york-and-acomb-firefighters-answer-999-call-to-compost-heap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292220\/","title":{"rendered":"York and Acomb firefighters answer 999 call to compost heap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The drama started when one commercial compost heap which measured 40 metres by 15 metres caught fire yesterday evening in close proximity to other compost heaps.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Acomb and York fire crews answered the 999 call and tackled the blaze.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Because of the strong winds, they feared the fire would spread to the other heaps and used their main jets to stop them from igniting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After the blaze was extinguished and the fire crews made sure that it was safe for them to leave, onsite staff monitored the heap for the rest of the night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Acomb firefighters will return to the site to carry out checks today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tinker Lane is off the B1224 just outside Rufforth and leads to Harewood Whin Waste Transfer Station and the Yorkshire Outdoor Activity Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The cause has not been revealed. Large compost heaps can combust spontaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The drama started when one commercial compost heap which measured 40 metres by 15 metres caught fire yesterday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-292220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}