{"id":539618,"date":"2026-04-19T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539618\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:50:11","slug":"huge-huddersfield-fire-live-as-leeds-road-residents-told-to-get-out-after-loud-explosions-and-toxic-smoke-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539618\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Huddersfield fire LIVE as Leeds Road residents told to get out after loud explosions and toxic smoke warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nathan Milner heard explosions at around 12:15pm this afternoon\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_Huddersfield-Fire.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Nathan Milner heard explosions at around 12:15pm this afternoon\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Nathan Milner heard explosions at around 12:15pm this afternoon(Image: Andrew Robindon \/ YorkshireLive)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Nathan Milner, who lives near the scene, said he was woken up at around 12:15pm this afternoon to the sound of explosions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He said: &#8220;It was loud &#8211; boom, boom, boom. I heard at least 10 bangs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Living on Fieldhouse Road, he said he and other residents were evacuated from their homes at around 12.30pm. Police officers told them to &#8220;get ready &#8211; you are going to have to get out&#8221;. Officers referenced explosions, toxic smoke and safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Milner heard explosions at around 12:15pm this afternoon(Image: Andrew Robindon \/ YorkshireLive) Nathan Milner, who lives near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,83385,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-huddersfield","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539618","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=539618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}