{"id":575227,"date":"2026-07-30T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575227\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:40:11","slug":"suffolk-wildfire-updates-watch-live-aerial-footage-as-fire-crews-fight-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575227\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk wildfire updates: Watch live aerial footage as fire crews fight blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It was a real shock,&#8217; says holidaymakerpublished at 10:23 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:23 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6d533a8c-4d1f-4620-8a9b-ca2a466f088a.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Alice Cunningham<br \/>BBC News, Suffolk<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Our reporter Luke Deal has just spoken to Tara Dowsett from Chelmsford in Essex, who was on holiday at Cliff House Holiday Park close to the heath when the fire broke out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained they had been driving back from Lowestoft on Wednesday night when they started to drive through &#8220;thick smoke&#8221;, initially thinking it was an out-of-control bonfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a real shock,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that their dog, who they left at the holiday park, had to be rescued by police officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s scary, but I just want to give a big shout out to the people of Westleton because actions do speak louder than words,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s so much negativity in the world and you realise actually there are more kind people than nasty people.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was a real shock,&#8217; says holidaymakerpublished at 10:23 BST 10:23 BST Alice CunninghamBBC News, Suffolk Our reporter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-575227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}