{"id":604114,"date":"2026-05-26T04:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604114\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:06:10","slug":"arthurs-seat-fire-live-huge-blaze-in-edinburgh-park-as-flames-seen-for-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604114\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur&#8217;s Seat fire live: Huge blaze in Edinburgh park as flames seen for miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The fire service have asked the public to cease contacting them regarding the incident as they have already received more than 180 calls since the blaze broke out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a statement, a spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: &#8220;We are currently in attendance at an incident on Arthur&#8217;s Seat in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Operations Control has mobilised three appliances to the scene. People are being asked to avoid the area as crews work to extinguish a large grass fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;There is no further need to alert our Operations Control to this incident as we have already received a large volume of calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters swarmed the area around Arthur's Seat\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_Arthurs-Seat-fire.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Firefighters swarmed the area around Arthur's Seat\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Firefighters swarmed the area around Arthur&#8217;s Seat(Image: Jane Barlow\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fire service have asked the public to cease contacting them regarding the incident as they have already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[390,2169,148327,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-breaking-news","tag-edinburgh","tag-fire-service","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604114","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=604114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}