{"id":673579,"date":"2026-07-04T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673579\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:10:08","slug":"swansea-road-closed-as-fire-causes-large-clouds-of-dark-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673579\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea road closed as fire causes large clouds of dark smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A city centre road has been closed due to a commercial industrial fire which is causing large clouds of black smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Wales Police said it was at the scene of the incident on Dyfatty Street in Swansea on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said the road has been closed from Dyfatty Street to Orchard Street and Newhall Road, adding that there was a lot of smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Please avoid the area and use alternative routes where possible,&#8221; a South Wales Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Torsten Bell, MP for Swansea West, posted on X: &#8220;I&#8217;m concerned there appears to be a fire in central Swansea in the city church area &#8211; advisable to stay away until it&#8217;s clear what&#8217;s going on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m contacting the emergency services and council and will be follow the situation closely. Stay safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A city centre road has been closed due to a commercial industrial fire which is causing large clouds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673579","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\/673579","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=673579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}