{"id":738760,"date":"2026-08-15T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738760\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:12:10","slug":"west-midlands-fires-homeowners-return-home-and-assess-the-damage-after-houses-burned-down-in-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738760\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands fires: Homeowners return home and assess the damage after houses burned down in fires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty-three new wildfires across UK in the last 24 hours, fire official sayspublished at 10:35 BST<\/p>\n

10:35 BST<\/p>\n

Phil Garrigan, chair of the National Fire Chief\u2019s Council (NFCC) has described the strain on services across the UK, which have been called out to an additional 43 new wildfires in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n

This is in addition to largescale incidents in the West Midlands, South Wales and Hampshire.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s still 41 fire engines which aren\u2019t necessarily deployed in their own areas because they are deployed into those three areas where there are major incidents declared,\u201d he tells BBC Breakfast.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve had 11 major incidents declared over the last 48 hours, which means fire and rescue resources are incredibly stretched and under incredible pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The former chief officer for Merseyside said there were a number of requests for resources during the busiest 24 hour period that could not be met.<\/p>\n

“Fire and rescue services
\nwere asking for resources, they\u2019d asked for maybe 10 additional appliances to
\ncome in nationally, and we weren\u2019t able to provide them with the full 10 in the
\nfirst instance.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve had to provide them with those 10 fire appliances over a
\nmore extended period of time than we would have liked to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty-three new wildfires across UK in the last 24 hours, fire official sayspublished at 10:35 BST 10:35 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738760","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\/738760","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=738760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}