{"id":648778,"date":"2026-06-20T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648778\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:43:14","slug":"crews-tackle-major-fire-at-thurmaston-shopping-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648778\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews tackle major fire at Thurmaston shopping centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A shopping centre in Leicestershire has been badly damaged by a fire which broke out in the early hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire service said it received multiple calls to the blaze affecting several units at Thurmaston Shopping Centre in Barkby Thorpe Lane at about 04:00 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At its height eight fire engines were in attendance, along with two aerial appliances and more than 40 firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Due to a significant smoke plume local residents have been advised to keep windows and doors closed but there are currently no reports of any injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shopping centre in Leicestershire has been badly damaged by a fire which broke out in the early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648778","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\/648778","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=648778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}