{"id":440723,"date":"2026-02-23T05:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440723\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T05:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:05:07","slug":"pictures-show-huge-blaze-at-chapel-as-70-firefighters-rush-to-scene-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440723\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures show huge blaze at chapel as 70 firefighters rush to scene | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major fire and rescue operation is currently in progress in London, with 10 fire engines and approximately 70 firefighters battling a <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2174149\/more-than-70-firefighters-called-to-Southall-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blaze at a church in the capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2171451\/bus-bursts-into-flames-horrified\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the London Fire Brigade<\/a>, the chapel on South Road, Southall, is well alight, with &#8220;part of the ground floor, second floor and roof&#8221; engulfed in flames, a spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from Southall, Ealing, Heston and neighbouring fire stations rushed to the scene following nearly two dozen emergency calls from members of the public alerting authorities to the fire, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/london-church-fire-live-70-36764511\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports The Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the latest in our live blog down below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major fire and rescue operation is currently in progress in London, with 10 fire engines and approximately&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79545,2583,59,57,58,388,36047,50,160456,160455,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-440723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-emergency-response","9":"tag-fire-news","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-london-fire-brigade","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-south-road-southall","17":"tag-southall-church-fire","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440723","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=440723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}