{"id":700524,"date":"2026-07-19T21:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700524\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:15:08","slug":"fire-crews-battling-huge-blaze-on-arthurs-seat-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700524\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews battling huge blaze on Arthur\u2019s Seat in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the latest wildfire call out for the Scottish fire service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of firefighters, two helicopters and specialist resources were sent to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqx7w285ywro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cairngorms National Park where a blaze has been ongoing<\/a> for four days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six square kilometres of land had been affected resulting in homes and businesses, including campsites and a ski resort in the Glenmore Forest Park area, being evacuated as a safety precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A high volume pump has been used to draw water from Loch Morlich to support firefighting efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Sunday, fire crews &#8220;surrounded&#8221; the blaze and police began escorting residents and campers back to properties and campsites to collect personal belongings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is the latest wildfire call out for the Scottish fire service. Hundreds of firefighters, two helicopters and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","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\/700524","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=700524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}