{"id":27064,"date":"2020-07-21T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27064"},"modified":"2020-07-20T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:29:37","slug":"blackpool-central-pier-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=27064","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool Central Pier fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27065\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bbc_210720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"353\" \/>Some 50 firefighters have been tackling a blaze on Blackpool&#8217;s Central Pier.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC writes:<\/p>\n<p>Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said crews arrived just after 03:00 BST to find the ride and engineering shed well alight.<\/p>\n<p>Incident commander Mark Winder said it was soon brought under control thanks to &#8220;some fantastic early intervention&#8221; by crews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately we had some of the conditions in our favour so we did not have a particularly strong wind and the tide was out, so we were able to tackle the fire below from the beach as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the cause of the fire has begun, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Promenade around the pier was closed for a time, but has since reopened&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Blackpool&#8217;s piers<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The Grade II listed North Pier opened in 1863 and is the oldest remaining example of a pier designed by celebrated seaside architect Eugenius Birch. It suffered substantial\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lancashire-26704975\">storm damage in 2013<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Central Pier followed in 1868. A 33m-high (108ft) Ferris wheel known as the Big Wheel was installed in 1990<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">South Pier, originally called Victoria Pier, is the youngest of the three structures, opening in 1893#<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lancashire-53441236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 50 firefighters have been tackling a blaze on Blackpool&#8217;s Central Pier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27066,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064\/revisions\/27066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}