{"id":514613,"date":"2026-04-05T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:02:13","slug":"families-left-homeless-as-tree-falls-into-houses-in-kinver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514613\/","title":{"rendered":"Families left homeless as tree falls into houses in Kinver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryan Bridgewood, who lives in one of the homes, said he feared for the lives of his two children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told the BBC: &#8220;We just heard an almighty crash, it was like an earthquake had hit the house. I&#8217;ve looked at those trees swaying in the wind before and have been worried about them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as I heard the bang, I looked outside and saw the tree leaning on the house and I feared for my kids&#8217; lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office had warned Storm Dave would bring strong winds on Saturday evening with some heavy spells of rain at times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amber and yellow national severe weather warnings were issued for parts of northern England, North Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Bridgewood, who lives in one of the homes, said he feared for the lives of his two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-514613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514613","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=514613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}