{"id":548406,"date":"2026-04-24T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:25:08","slug":"large-fire-breaks-out-in-trafford-with-black-smoke-seen-for-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548406\/","title":{"rendered":"Large fire breaks out in Trafford with black smoke seen for miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A large fire has broken out in a factory building at an industrial park with police closing major roads around the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thick plumes of black smoke can be seen across Greater Manchester with the blaze believed to have started in the Trafford area &#8211; although the cause is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emergency services were called to Clarence Avenue in Trafford Park at about 13:25 BST, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People have been urged to avoid the area as emergency services work to bring the fire under control, with reports of chemical and oil drums stored nearby. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large fire has broken out in a factory building at an industrial park with police closing major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-548406","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\/548406","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=548406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}