{"id":732052,"date":"2026-08-09T01:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732052\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T01:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:48:14","slug":"man-in-70s-dies-in-house-fire-in-stoke-on-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/732052\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in 70s dies in house fire in Stoke-on-Trent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has died and four others have been treated by ambulance crews after a house fire in Stoke-on-Trent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staffordshire Police said officers were alerted to the blaze on Ridgway Road, in the Shelton area, by the fire service at about 12:50 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the fire was quickly extinguished, a 75-year-old man was found dead, while four others were treated for the effects of smoke inhalation, with one woman in her 60s taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said the man&#8217;s next of kin had been informed and it was working with fire investigators to determine how the blaze started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It called on anyone with information to contact officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died and four others have been treated by ambulance crews after a house fire in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732052","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\/732052","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=732052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}