{"id":710804,"date":"2026-07-25T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710804\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:13:10","slug":"cairngorm-residents-say-wildfire-response-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710804\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairngorm residents say wildfire response &#8216;too slow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil Gray said that decisions on how best to tackle the fire were taken on an &#8220;evidence basis&#8221; and the government &#8220;takes its lead from the emergency services in terms of our response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been very clear that all resources that could possibly be committed are being committed by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gray added that the government had also approached the military to ask for additional helicopters having &#8220;exhausted all commercially available helicopters&#8221; but had not yet had a response. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cabinet secretary continued that two helicopters were available on Saturay, and further helicopters would be available on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said these were coming from the commercial sector, and were covered by a contract that was led by the government body NatureScot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire broke out near the village of Glenmore on Wednesday last week, and led to residents and campsites being evacuated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It covered about six square kilometres of heather and small trees at its height, with more than 500 firefighters tackling it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Gray said that decisions on how best to tackle the fire were taken on an &#8220;evidence basis&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710804","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\/710804","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=710804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}