{"id":60158,"date":"2026-09-05T16:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/londonderry-residents-evacuated-after-arson-attack-at-former-gym\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:27:32","slug":"londonderry-residents-evacuated-after-arson-attack-at-former-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/londonderry-residents-evacuated-after-arson-attack-at-former-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"Londonderry: Residents evacuated after arson attack at former gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Residents were forced to evacuate their homes after an arson attack at a derelict building in Londonderry.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire started at about 06:00 BST on Saturday at the former gym on Grainan Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said no one was in the building at the time and no injuries were reported but residents from the adjoining property were evacuated as a safety precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One resident said they awoke to &#8220;banging on the door&#8221; but after two hours they were able to return to their homes once the fire was brought under control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgk5ddmrd1go?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents were forced to evacuate their homes after an arson attack at a derelict building in Londonderry. The fire started at about 06:00 BST on Saturday at the former gym on Grainan Drive. Police said no one was in the building at the time and no injuries were reported but residents from the adjoining property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[3726,1073,2181,14617,10301,423],"class_list":["post-60158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-arson","tag-attack","tag-evacuated","tag-gym","tag-londonderry","tag-residents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60160,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60158\/revisions\/60160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}