{"id":30020,"date":"2021-05-18T16:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=30020"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:54:45","slug":"platts-eyot-fire-river-thames-gii-boatyards-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=30020","title":{"rendered":"Platt&#8217;s Eyot fire: River Thames GII boatyards destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bbc_180521.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30021\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bbc_180521.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a>A huge blaze has destroyed two Grade-II listed boatyards on a River Thames island.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out at Platt&#8217;s Eyot in Hampton, south-west London, at 17:15 BST on Monday. About 100 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze. Witnesses described hearing explosions coming from the island, near Richmond-upon-Thames\u2026Photographer Chris Gorman said one of the boats destroyed was one of the last remaining Dunkirk evacuation vessels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-london-56950491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge blaze has destroyed two Grade-II listed boatyards on a River Thames island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30020","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\/30020","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30022,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30020\/revisions\/30022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}