{"id":336906,"date":"2025-12-26T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336906\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:34:08","slug":"three-unaccounted-for-after-boxing-day-house-fire-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336906\/","title":{"rendered":"Three unaccounted for after Boxing Day house fire | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people are unaccounted for after a house fire in the early hours of Boxing Day, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency teams were called to a property on Brimscombe Hill, near Stroud, at around 3am, a Gloucestershire Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>One person managed to escape the property and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three other people, who are believed to have been inside the property, have not yet been accounted for and efforts to locate them are ongoing,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>Gloucestershire Police said officers attended the scene alongside crews from Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service and the ambulance service.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/police-force-warns-sea-swimmers-as-two-still-missing-13487377\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police warn sea swimmers as two still missing<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/health-alert-still-in-force-as-cold-weather-set-to-continue-13487411\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health alert still in force as cold weather set to continue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An investigation has been launched to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roads around Brimscombe Hill remain closed while emergency services continue to work at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public are advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people are unaccounted for after a house fire in the early hours of Boxing Day, police have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-336906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336906","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=336906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}