{"id":664527,"date":"2026-06-29T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664527\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:36:09","slug":"discarded-vape-battery-caused-450-tonne-cardboard-fire-in-widnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664527\/","title":{"rendered":"Discarded vape battery caused 450-tonne cardboard fire in Widnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A large blaze involving about 450 tonnes of cardboard, where huge plumes of smoke could be seen for miles around, is thought to have been caused by a disposable vape battery, fire investigators have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze at a recycling facility in Widnes, which &#8220;spread rapidly&#8221;, was &#8220;believed to have been caused accidentally by a damaged lithium-ion battery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said this was &#8220;most likely from a disposable vape that had been incorrectly disposed of&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nobody was injured in the fire, which was attended by 25 engines from Cheshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester, and declared a major incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large blaze involving about 450 tonnes of cardboard, where huge plumes of smoke could be seen for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664527","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\/664527","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=664527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}