{"id":89009,"date":"2026-05-11T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89009"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:53:35","slug":"uk-firefighters-issue-warning-over-huge-new-cause-of-fires-one-every-5-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/11\/uk-firefighters-issue-warning-over-huge-new-cause-of-fires-one-every-5-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"UK firefighters issue warning over huge new cause of fires &#8211; one every 5 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22UfWX.img?w=534&amp;h=333&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Video shows efforts to put out Glasgow vape shop fire that destroyed building\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fire brigades across the UK are dealing with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/2017011\/couple-dogs-killed-ebike-battery-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">lithium-ion battery fire<\/a>\u00a0roughly every five hours, prompting warnings from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">fire<\/a> chiefs over a rapidly growing hazard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/uk-firefighters-issue-warning-over-huge-new-cause-of-fires-one-every-5-hours\/ar-AA22U0FG?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a01cf4fc48e4dfc990a1046ee3f9138&amp;ei=26\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Fire brigades across the UK are dealing with a\u00a0lithium-ion battery fire\u00a0roughly every five hours, prompting warnings from\u00a0fire chiefs over a rapidly growing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/London-Fire-Brigade.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89010,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89009\/revisions\/89010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}