{"id":525062,"date":"2026-04-11T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:37:10","slug":"warning-in-place-as-fire-crews-respond-to-large-farm-blaze-in-sweets-lane-east-malling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525062\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning in place as fire crews respond to large farm blaze in Sweets Lane, East Malling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fire crews responding to a fire at a farm have issued a warning.<\/p>\n<p>Six fire engines and a bulk water carrier were dispatched to the agricultural blaze in Sweets Lane, East Malling last night (April 10).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 564 363\" alt=\"People living or travelling near Sweets Lane, East Malling are still being advised to close windows and doors due to smoke coming from a fire at a farm. Photo: Google\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"R7F9A2E5126I34IM5DJ3.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.55\"\/>People living or travelling near Sweets Lane, East Malling are still being advised to close windows and doors due to smoke coming from a fire at a farm. Photo: Google<\/p>\n<p>Overnight crews made good progress to extinguish the flames which had spread to machinery, outbuildings and a large amount of wood chip and logs.<\/p>\n<p>As of 6am this morning (April 11) the fire is now out and crews are dampening down to check for any remaining hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>One fire engine remains at the scene and a watching brief is in place.<\/p>\n<p>People living or travelling near the area are still being advised to close windows and doors due to the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the fire service added: \u201cPlease continue to share this information with any loved ones in the area who may be affected but do not have access to the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews responding to a fire at a farm have issued a warning. Six fire engines and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1104,59,57,58,191,3527,50,981,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-525062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-fire","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-kent","13":"tag-malling","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-traffic-and-travel","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525062","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=525062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}