{"id":592309,"date":"2026-05-19T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592309\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:59:09","slug":"bury-incident-live-emergency-services-rush-to-uk-town-centre-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592309\/","title":{"rendered":"Bury incident LIVE: Emergency services rush to UK town centre | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services have rushed to Bury town centre, with police issuing a statement and urging people to &#8220;avoid the area&#8221;. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Police\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/police\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> and firefighters are in attendance at the Rock car park on Derby Way, off Rochdale Road.<\/p>\n<p>Greater <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Manchester\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/manchester\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester<\/a> Police said officers are responding to concerns for a person&#8217;s welfare. Pictures from the scene show several police vehicles, ambulances and fire engines in attendance. A spokesperson for Greater Manchester <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Fire News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/fire\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire<\/a> and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: &#8220;Our crews are currently dealing with an incident on Rochdale Road in Bury. Residents are asked to please avoid the area at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW BELOW FOR THE LATEST UPDATES:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services have rushed to Bury town centre, with police issuing a statement and urging people to &#8220;avoid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3846,59,57,58,50,288,3883,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-emergency-news","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-police","tag-towns","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592309","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=592309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}