{"id":633896,"date":"2026-06-11T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633896\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:12:10","slug":"baby-tortoise-saved-after-fire-at-buntingford-soft-play-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633896\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby tortoise saved after fire at Buntingford soft play centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The soft play centre, which opened in June last year, recently created an exotic pets area that was home to meerkats, snakes, tortoises, iguanas, owls and genets, according to posts on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East Hertfordshire Council said it was aware that animals were on the site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it wrote to the company at the beginning of the month &#8220;to inform them of the need to apply for a licence&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it had &#8220;not received a response from them&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire service said: &#8220;While carrying out the fire investigation, we incredibly discovered a baby tortoise alive in the aftermath, despite earlier fears that all the animals had died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A small but powerful moment after a very difficult incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The soft play centre, which opened in June last year, recently created an exotic pets area that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-633896","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\/633896","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=633896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}