{"id":703338,"date":"2026-07-21T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703338\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:32:10","slug":"blaenavon-mountain-wildfire-smelled-30-miles-away-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703338\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaenavon mountain wildfire smelled 30 miles away in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smoke from a raging mountain wildfire the size of 120 football pitches has been smelled 30 miles away in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The blaze broke out on Mynydd Garnclochdy between Abersychan and Blaenavon in Torfaen on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 40 firefighters are tackling the wildfire on two fronts across 80 hectares of common and pasture land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A number of properties in the path of the fire are being protected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The blaze is generating a very large amount of smoke, and South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had received numerous calls about the incident from as far away as Caerphilly and Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s reporter at the scene said he could &#8220;taste the smoke&#8221;, adding it was &#8220;acrid in the air&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke from a raging mountain wildfire the size of 120 football pitches has been smelled 30 miles away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703338","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\/703338","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=703338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}