{"id":426527,"date":"2026-02-15T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426527\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:16:09","slug":"kent-fire-crews-tackle-blaze-at-former-odeon-cinema-in-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426527\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent fire crews tackle blaze at former Odeon cinema in Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fire crews are tackling a blaze which broke out in a derelict cinema on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) said it was called just after 14:00 GMT to the former Odeon building St George&#8217;s Place in Canterbury, where 15 fire engines are on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People living nearby have been asked to keep doors and windows closed due to the amount of smoke coming from the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 17:00, a spokesperson for KFRS said it was making &#8220;good progress&#8221; extinguishing the fire using hose-reel jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews are tackling a blaze which broke out in a derelict cinema on Saturday afternoon. Kent Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426528,"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-426527","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\/426527","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=426527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}