{"id":750596,"date":"2026-08-26T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750596\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:56:09","slug":"fire-mitcham-common-beddington-photos-show-shocking-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750596\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Mitcham Common Beddington &#8211; photos show shocking smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  London Fire Brigade said: &#8220;Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters have been called to a grass fire near Carshalton Road in Mitcham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The fire is producing a significant amount of smoke and local residents should keep their windows and doors closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Plume of smoke (Image: Local residents UGC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Control Officers took the first of over 70 calls at 1627 and have mobilised crews from Mitcham, Wallington, Norbury and surrounding fire stations to the scene.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Residents have been advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London Fire Brigade said: &#8220;Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters have been called to a grass fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750596","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\/750596","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=750596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}