{"id":468635,"date":"2026-03-10T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468635\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:57:11","slug":"pitsea-homes-evacuated-after-hazardous-materials-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468635\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitsea homes evacuated after &#8216;hazardous materials&#8217; discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 100 homes were evacuated as a precaution after the discovery of &#8220;potentially hazardous or combustible materials&#8221; during a police search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex Police had been carrying out a search warrant at a property in Rokescroft, Pitsea, on Tuesday, &#8220;following intelligence received&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 100m exclusion-zone cordon was placed around the address while bomb disposal teams worked on site and specialists recovered &#8220;items of concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 37\u2011year\u2011old man from Pitsea has been arrested on suspicion of making or possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances and remains in police custody, the force said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 100 homes were evacuated as a precaution after the discovery of &#8220;potentially hazardous or combustible materials&#8221; during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-468635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468635","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=468635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}