{"id":700634,"date":"2026-07-19T22:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:45:14","slug":"fire-crews-surround-large-scale-cairngorms-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700634\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews &#8216;surround&#8217; large-scale Cairngorms wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">The Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) said on Sunday there was &#8220;growing optimism that the heroic efforts of people on the ground to tackle the wildfire are working&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they added the incident remained live and roadblocks would remain in place until the firefighting operation was completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The public has been asked to avoid Glenmore, Abernethy, Loch Morlich and the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Homes and businesses, including campsites and a ski resort in the Glenmore Forest Park area, were previously evacuated as a safety precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SFRS said six appliances and specialist resources, including all-terrain vehicles, remained on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Videos from the response on Saturday showed helicopters water-bombing affected areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-volume pump has been used to draw water from Loch Morlich to support firefighting efforts. The Cairngorms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700634","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\/700634","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=700634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}