{"id":4909,"date":"2011-08-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2011-08-17T19:32:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:32:38","slug":"brixton-footlocker-fire-smoulders-on-tube-station-and-shops-still-closed-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-footlocker-fire-smoulders-on-tube-station-and-shops-still-closed-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, shops still closed [photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-16.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not sure of the mechanics of a fire that can start up again two weeks after it had supposedly been put out, but the riot-damaged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-closes-down-as-rumours-of-fresh-trouble-circulate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Footlocker store in central Brixton<\/a>\u00a0was ablaze again last night and is still smouldering now.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-01.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s fire engines all along Atlantic Road and the surrounding streets.<\/p>\n<p>Local rumour has it that the fire was put down this morning but then\u00a0reignited\u00a0this afternoon,\u00a0prompting\u00a0another huge Fire Service presence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-02.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coldharbour Lane has been sealed off since last night. The tube has also been closed all day, as has stores like \u00a0Sainsbury&#8217;s, Argos and the\u00a0beleaguered\u00a0Carphone Warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Update: the tube is now open (615pm)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-03.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-05.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-06.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-08.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-09.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-10.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-11.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s all sorts of Fire Brigade vehicles parked around the site &#8211; I counted well over 20.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-12.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see part of the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/one-love-brixton-graffiti-on-riot-trashed-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love Wall<\/a>&#8216; around the Footlocker store above.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-13.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-14.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-15.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cool sounding &#8216;urban search and rescue&#8217; vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-17.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smoke is still billowing out of the building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-footlocker-fire-18.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Footlocker fire smoulders on, tube station and shops still closed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A look up Atlantic Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/fire-in-brixton-by-footlocker.279427\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discuss the fire here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still not sure of the mechanics of a fire that can start up again two weeks after it had supposedly been put out, but the riot-damaged Footlocker store in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17,193],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-footlocker-fire-16.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1hb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}