{"id":729176,"date":"2026-08-06T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729176\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:04:09","slug":"salford-fashion-outlet-marc-darcy-gutted-in-overnight-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729176\/","title":{"rendered":"Salford fashion outlet Marc Darcy gutted in overnight blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An overnight fire has gutted a fashion outlet in Manchester closing a major road into the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said it was called to reports of a fire at Marc Darcy on Bury New Road in Salford at about 01:40 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The outlet was &#8220;well alight&#8221; when firefighters arrived and the blaze was tackled by eight fire crews and specialist units including a turntable ladder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A GMFRS spokeswoman said: &#8220;Crews remain in attendance as they continue to work to extinguish the fire and make the area safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Bury New Road is currently closed by Greater Manchester Police and residents are asked to stay away from the area and keep doors and windows closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An employee of the business, who did not want to be named, told the BBC staff &#8220;are very shocked&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the premises sold high end men&#8217;s designer suits and boasted several celebrities among their customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overnight fire has gutted a fashion outlet in Manchester closing a major road into the city. Greater&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729176","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\/729176","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=729176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}