{"id":715268,"date":"2026-07-28T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:37:09","slug":"rain-brings-hope-of-relief-for-fire-crews-fighting-cairngorms-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715268\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain brings hope of relief for fire crews fighting Cairngorms wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CNPA said the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) reported on Monday evening there had been a reduction in visible flames, but warned large areas were still smouldering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The park authority said the fire was still burning deep in the peat soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that helicopters, sourced and funded by Forestry and Land Scotland, would likely continue water bombing on Tuesday, assisted by drones equipped with thermal cameras to detect hotspots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire broke out near the village of Glenmore, outside Aviemore, on 15 July and led to residents and campsites being evacuated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At its height, more than 500 firefighters were involved in the response and Police Scotland declared it a &#8220;major incident&#8221; on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNPA said the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) reported on Monday evening there had been a reduction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715268","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\/715268","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=715268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}