{"id":53131,"date":"2025-03-06T16:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=53131"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:43:24","slug":"going-going-gone-moment-hillsborough-woke-up-with-a-bang-when-chimneys-were-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/going-going-gone-moment-hillsborough-woke-up-with-a-bang-when-chimneys-were-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Going, Going, Gone! Moment Hillsborough woke up with a bang when chimneys were demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This was the moment a planned demolition took sleeping residents of Hillsborough by surprise after organisers failed to let them know it was going to happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hillsborough Chimney Demolition, Footage by Jo Joel\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pUiFT8Q0XvI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>Footage by Jo Joel via Facebook<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The planned demolition took place at 8am on Sunday 2nd March at Clay Wheels Lane in Hillsborough, Sheffield, and the destruction of four chimneys caused noisy explosions which panicked residents who were unaware of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this, emergency services were informed of the demolition in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Steven Ross, a Communications Officer for South Yorkshire Police, said: \u201cThis was a controlled explosion to demolish chimneys at Clay Wheels Lane, Sheffield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He continued: \u201cOfficers were not involved. Neighbour Policing Team resources were deployed to the area following the demolition to provide reassurance to residents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">However, it appears that many residents were not aware of the disruption beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Luke Robson, who lives on Penistone Road, said: \u201cWe had no idea what it was or where it was coming from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe thought it may have been an accident at a nearby factory or building site and feared the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Robson added that there were no advance notices or posts on any of the local social media groups, and that he was thankful that \u2018other residents were able to explain what happened\u2019 after he \u2018posted straight away\u2019 about the disturbance in a Hillsborough and S6 Facebook group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As shown in the footage, sirens blared loudly after the explosions and a large dust cloud was visible over the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sharon Lavette, of Dykewood Drive, said: \u201cA warning would have been nice, had my son not actually seen it we would not have known what it was, at first he just thought it was an air raid or something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Following reassurance from social media users about the cause of the explosions, Luke Robson left a relieved comment on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LukeRobsonCommentNoFace-1024x362.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53149\" style=\"width:489px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LukeRobsonCommentNoFace-1024x362.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LukeRobsonCommentNoFace-980x346.jpg 980w, https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LukeRobsonCommentNoFace-480x170.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sub><sup>Luke Robson via Facebook<\/sup><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the moment a planned demolition took sleeping residents of Hillsborough by surprise after organisers failed to let them know it was going to happen. 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