{"id":540242,"date":"2026-04-20T00:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:52:11","slug":"basildon-and-billericay-firefighters-at-waltham-abbey-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540242\/","title":{"rendered":"Basildon and Billericay firefighters at Waltham Abbey blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Essex County Fire and Rescue Service was called to the blaze at Galley Hill Road, Waltham Abbey, at about 6pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ten crews from Basildon, Billericay, Grays, Brentwood, Harlow, Loughton and Ongar are on the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson said: &#8220;Firefighters were working to surround the fire and extinguish it in sections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Due to difficult water access, firefighters have requested a further two crews and two Water Bowsers to get water to the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Ten crews are working to tackle the fire in sections from the ground and are also using an Aerial Ladder Platform to tackle the fire from above.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex County Fire and Rescue Service was called to the blaze at Galley Hill Road, Waltham Abbey, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540242","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-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540242","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=540242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}