{"id":718341,"date":"2026-07-30T02:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718341\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:50:12","slug":"firefighters-tackle-multiple-grassland-fires-in-romford-and-rainham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718341\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters tackle multiple grassland fires in Romford and Rainham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A large area of grassland in east London has been destroyed by fire as temperatures reached 34C (93F).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London Fire Brigade (LFB) said 60 firefighters were called to Eastern Avenue West in Romford just after 17:00 BST. About 30 acres (12 hectares) of grassland were destroyed, including 20 acres on the westbound side and 10 acres on the eastbound side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, firefighters were dealing with another grassland fire nearby in Southern Way where about four acres (1.6 hectares) of grassland were damaged. Both fires were under control by around 19:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Rainham, about 100 firefighters are dealing with another grass fire where 10 acres (four hectares) of grassland are alight near Acer Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crews are using wildfire beaters \u2013 handheld tools used to help put out grass fires by smothering the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters from New Cross, West Norwood, Romford, Dockhead, Orpington, Sidcup and surrounding stations are at the scene having been called at about 19:30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cause of all fires is not yet known. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large area of grassland in east London has been destroyed by fire as temperatures reached 34C (93F).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718341","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\/718341","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=718341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}