{"id":554736,"date":"2026-04-28T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:45:11","slug":"community-say-towns-soul-hurt-by-pink-punters-club-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554736\/","title":{"rendered":"Community say town&#8217;s soul hurt by Pink Punters club fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gemma Phypers and Erin Street, both 18, also praised security, with the former saying: &#8220;Everyone was out within like five minutes, it was the best thing I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her friend added: &#8220;It was a bit scary&#8230; It was just a bit like it wasn&#8217;t really real; it was really strange.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The friends had been downstairs when the fire started and had not realised what was happening until they came up to the deserted main floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff quickly instructed the two girls to leave the building, and they watched from outside as the flames spread to the upper floors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seeing the damage the next day, Street said: &#8220;We&#8217;re so shocked at how it looks now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To come back and see what actually happened, it&#8217;s so bad, I&#8217;m glad everyone got out, and no one was hurt, honestly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like I don&#8217;t know how they did it, but yeah, it&#8217;s insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gemma Phypers and Erin Street, both 18, also praised security, with the former saying: &#8220;Everyone was out within&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554736","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\/554736","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=554736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}