{"id":443719,"date":"2026-02-24T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443719\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:30:09","slug":"burst-water-main-causes-flooding-in-islington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443719\/","title":{"rendered":"Burst water main causes flooding in Islington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A burst water main has flooded roads in north London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said the burst 30in (76cm) pipe was causing flooding between Caledonian Road and Twyford Street, to the junction of Thornhill Bridge Wharf and Caledonian Road in Islington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters plus specialist teams were called to the scene at about 14:45 GMT. The LFB&#8217;s response to the incident concluded just after 18:40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Thames Water spokesperson apologised to the affected residents and said its engineers were on site shortly after 13:45, who &#8220;successfully isolated the damaged section of pipe, which has stabilised the network and restored water supply to the wider area&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A burst water main has flooded roads in north London. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said the burst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-443719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443719","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=443719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}