{"id":413071,"date":"2026-02-07T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413071\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:53:11","slug":"firefighters-battle-blaze-in-abandoned-building-in-leigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413071\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle blaze in abandoned building in Leigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Emergency services were called to Ellesmere Street overnight from Friday into Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At 1.30am today, a Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson said there was a fire in an abandoned building, believed to be the former King Street School.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Then at 9am this morning, a Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said Ellesmere Street is closed along with King Street, between Spinning Jenny Way and St Helens Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There are not believed to be any injuries as a result of the incident according to the emergency services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A police spokesperson said: &#8220;The emergency services will continue to be in the area for the foreseeable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were called to Ellesmere Street overnight from Friday into Saturday. At 1.30am today, a Greater Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-413071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413071","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=413071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}