{"id":438685,"date":"2026-02-21T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:05:07","slug":"knutsford-farm-gas-explosion-sees-five-people-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438685\/","title":{"rendered":"Knutsford farm gas explosion sees five people taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A planned event for Sunday will not now go ahead, with the cafe and farm shop also remaining closed for the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This has not been an easy decision, but our priority right now is the wellbeing of our team,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our thoughts are with our injured colleagues and everyone affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement went on to say: &#8220;We are co-operating fully with the relevant authorities as they look into what happened and will share further updates when appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson confirmed its crews had attended and the fire was out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said they were alerted to the incident at the farm on Chelford Road by the fire and rescue service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Officers swiftly attended the scene and found that a gas canister on the site had ignited and subsequently exploded,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whilst enquiries are under way to fully establish the circumstances surrounding the incident, it is not being treated as suspicious.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A planned event for Sunday will not now go ahead, with the cafe and farm shop also remaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438686,"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-438685","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\/438685","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=438685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}