{"id":722498,"date":"2026-08-01T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:11:09","slug":"newport-fire-crews-tackle-blaze-at-star-trading-estate-caerleon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722498\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport fire: Crews tackle blaze at Star Trading Estate, Caerleon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters have been dealing with a massive fire at an industrial estate that broke out in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents reported hearing popping sounds and smelling smoke from Star Trading Estate in Caerleon, Newport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it sent 10 fire engines following the 999 call at 02:42 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People have shared photos on local Facebook group showing a black plume of smoke high over the site, while Public Health Wales has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PublicHealthW\/posts\/pfbid02AgphhQCa3DuXCwTvPikDuwu7BWQq4acKK7Qp7N9G5SbeGuPa2Vr97Af2j6kNXM65l\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">advised, external<\/a> householders living in the area to keep their windows and doors closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire service said the site had been evacuated and all persons accounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Members of the public are urged to avoid the area to allow emergency services to carry out their work,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Due to smoke in the vicinity, residents are also advised to keep windows and doors closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters have been dealing with a massive fire at an industrial estate that broke out in the middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722498","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\/722498","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=722498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}