{"id":440462,"date":"2026-02-23T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440462\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T01:20:12","slug":"firefighters-tackling-large-blaze-at-devon-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440462\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters tackling large blaze at Devon school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Cornwall Police asked anyone who lived in the Stockley Hamlet area to ensure their windows and doors were closed, and asked people to avoid the area if possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sgt Tom Ottley said there was &#8220;significant damage to the entire school&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[It is] quite a significant sized blaze, fire have it under control, we don&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s any further risk to property or any casualties at the moment, so it&#8217;s just about trying to control the damage and assess the damage thereafter,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ottley said police were in touch with the school and parents of its pupils would be contacted overnight to let them know about plans for the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He urged anyone who worked in the area to check for the latest information on Monday before travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devon and Cornwall Police asked anyone who lived in the Stockley Hamlet area to ensure their windows and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440463,"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-440462","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\/440462","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=440462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}