{"id":288,"date":"2014-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/fire-eastbourne-pier-30th-july-2014\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:53:31","slug":"fire-eastbourne-pier-30th-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/uk-weather\/fire-eastbourne-pier-30th-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire On Eastbourne Pier 30th July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days after Brighton launches their replacement for it's West Pier, destroyed by a storm and a fire in 2003, just a few miles down the road, Eastbournes iconic Pier is today (30th July 2014) on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Picture have started to appear on Twitter, showing the blaze...<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>End of an era? Eastbourne Pier is on fire <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/t6GdwaJYeY\">pic.twitter.com\/t6GdwaJYeY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zara Baker (@BestOfZara) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BestOfZara\/statuses\/494502199658299392\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>More photos of Eastbourne pier <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/hj7GlgXuEV\">pic.twitter.com\/hj7GlgXuEV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Li Noormohamed (@lnoormohamed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lnoormohamed\/statuses\/494505728028467201\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>Another UK pier is on fire this time in Eastbourne. So sad! Best wishes to the firefighters (Image: Chris Williams) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/snAHM9a9Tq\">pic.twitter.com\/snAHM9a9Tq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Birmingham Updates (@BhamUpdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BhamUpdates\/statuses\/494504534337929216\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>Damn, not looking good for Eastbourne pier \ud83d\ude41 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/HKNY87YDJM\">pic.twitter.com\/HKNY87YDJM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gareth Slee \uf8ff (@garethslee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garethslee\/statuses\/494505918139494400\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>Dramatic aerial footage of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eastbourne?src=hash\">#Eastbourne<\/a> fire <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/OHhusfp7oN\">http:\/\/t.co\/OHhusfp7oN<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FBogzpCntA\">pic.twitter.com\/FBogzpCntA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Frankel (@markfrankel29) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markfrankel29\/statuses\/494523201909948416\">July 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This will be a massive blow to the town, which such a disaster happening right in the middle of the summer season. <\/p>\n<p>Early indications suggest that nobody has been hurt in the fire, and it is not yet known how the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>For regular updates visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Weatherforecastcouk\/383144038452117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>, click the 'Like' button and then click the 'Follow' button. Updates will then appear in your Facebook news feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days after Brighton launches their replacement for it's West Pier, destroyed by a storm and a fire in 2003, just a few miles down the road, Eastbournes iconic Pier is today (30th July 2014) on fire. Picture have started to appear on Twitter, showing the blaze... End of an era? Eastbourne Pier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-weather","category-weather"],"acf":[],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}