{"id":623471,"date":"2026-06-05T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623471\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:03:10","slug":"major-fire-at-essex-bus-depot-creates-huge-smoke-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623471\/","title":{"rendered":"Major fire at Essex bus depot creates huge smoke cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters have been tackling a major blaze at a bus storage depot in Essex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 36 double-decker buses have been destroyed at the Chadwell St Marys depot, near Grays, after flames took hold shortly after 18:00 BST, said the county&#8217;s fire service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A huge cloud of thick black smoke was seen billowing from the site, with crews from Grays, Basildon and Orsett fighting the fire into Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire service said by about 21:00 two crews remained at the scene to extinguish hot spots. It said an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters have been tackling a major blaze at a bus storage depot in Essex. About 36 double-decker buses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623471","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\/623471","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=623471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}