{"id":416958,"date":"2026-02-09T23:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416958\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:34:46","slug":"edinburgh-bus-fire-flames-erupt-in-city-centre-as-people-flee-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416958\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh bus fire: Flames erupt in city centre as people flee | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plumes of smoke and a large black cloud are seen rising from the bus, while nearby vehicles avoid the chaotic scene. An eyewitness told <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/bus-bursts-flames-edinburgh-city-33393328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edinburgh Live<\/a>: &#8220;I saw some people who had stopped at the stop sign. I went to see what they were looking at and was like &#8216;holy ****. I thought, &#8216;maybe I should get out of here really fast.&#8217; When I walked down the street a bit farther, and I turned around, the whole bus was now enveloped in flames.&#8221; The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is currently in attendance. It is unknown whether there are any casualties.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plumes of smoke and a large black cloud are seen rising from the bus, while nearby vehicles avoid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[154148,2169,154147,2583,59,57,58,50,49944,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-416958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-bus-fire","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-bus-fire","tag-fire-news","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue-service","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}