{"id":709269,"date":"2026-07-24T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709269\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:30:09","slug":"essex-firefighters-tackling-blaze-at-hanningfield-industrial-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709269\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex firefighters tackling blaze at Hanningfield industrial unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters are dealing with what has been described as a &#8220;significant incident&#8221; at an industrial building in Essex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crews were called to farmland in Southend Road, between East Hanningfield and Rettendon, on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People have described hearing what sounded like an explosion to the BBC. One said it was &#8220;like a bomb&#8221; had gone off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Essex County Fire &amp; Rescue Service urged people to avoid the area and said: &#8220;If you live or are travelling nearby, please keep your windows and doors closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East of England Ambulance Service said it was responding to a &#8220;significant incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adrian Walker, 46, from Ashingdon, said: &#8220;The ground shook, buildings shook, windows rattled, birds flew off &#8211; and I am 15 miles away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Harris, from nearby Rayleigh, described it as &#8220;like someone had dropped a pile of bricks&#8221; outside his window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Essex? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are dealing with what has been described as a &#8220;significant incident&#8221; at an industrial building in Essex.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709269","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\/709269","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=709269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}