{"id":716776,"date":"2026-07-29T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716776\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:27:08","slug":"leicester-church-fire-live-huge-clouds-of-smoke-blanket-city-as-st-andrews-church-alight-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716776\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester church fire LIVE: Huge clouds of smoke blanket city as St Andrew\u2019s Church alight | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire ripped through a historic church in a UK city overnight, with thick smoke rising from the scene seen from miles. Heart-wrenching clips circulating on social media show St Andrew&#8217;s Church <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2233583\/vile-robbers-whipped-tortured-victims\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Leicester<\/a> ablaze and smoke pouring out of the historic building located on the corner of Jarrom Street and Gateway Street.<\/p>\n<p>Leicestershire Fire Service confirmed they are in attendance at a fire on Jarrom Street. A warning has been issued for all locals to shut doors and windows. A spokesperson for Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Control said: &#8220;There is an incident on Jarrom Street in Leicester City, this is sending smoke over the city. Please keep windows and doors closed!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. FOLLOW OUR COVERAGE BELOW. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire ripped through a historic church in a UK city overnight, with thick smoke rising from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3846,2583,59,57,58,237260,237261,50,237262,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-emergency-news","tag-fire-news","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-leicester-church-fire","tag-leicester-fire","tag-news","tag-st-andrews-fire","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716776","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=716776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}