{"id":339416,"date":"2025-12-28T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339416\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:05:14","slug":"fresh-christmas-candle-warning-after-spate-of-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339416\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Christmas candle warning after spate of fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Londoners are being warned against using candles after a spate of fires over the festive period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One woman was taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a house in Edmonton, north London, on Saturday evening. This came two days after fires at a house in Hayes, south-east London, and another one in Croydon, south London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile on Christmas Eve, about 40 firefighters attended a fire at a maisonette in Peckham, with two adults treated for smoke inhalation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All four fires were believed to have been caused by lit candles left unattended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Londoners are being warned against using candles after a spate of fires over the festive period. One woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-339416","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339416","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=339416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}