{"id":718570,"date":"2026-07-30T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718570\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:52:13","slug":"road-into-kingennie-village-in-angus-closed-amid-major-emergency-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/718570\/","title":{"rendered":"Road into Kingennie village in Angus closed amid major emergency response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A road into a village in Angus was closed amid an incident at a property which sparked a major emergency service response. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly before midday on Wednesday, Drumsturdy Road, from the Kellas Road junction to the Ethiebeaton\/Forbes junction, which leads into Kingennie, was closed, with diversions put in place.<\/p>\n<p>The village is around five miles north east of Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>Around ten police vehicles, an ambulance, a special operations team, and two fire appliances were at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In an update on Wednesday night, Police Scotland said the road had reopened and the \u201cincident had been resolved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/19e60345c22b90a060d2eae5116f5fdc-1785337524.jpeg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\"   alt=\"The road leading into the village has been locked down\"\/>STV NewsThe road leading into the village has been locked down STV News<\/p>\n<p>A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \u201cWe received a call at 11.58am to attend an incident on Drumsturdy Road, Kingennie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe dispatched an ambulance and a special operations response team (SORT) to the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: \u201cWe are supporting emergency service partners at an incident on Drumsturdy Road, Broughty Ferry, Angus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperations Control mobilised two fire appliances to the area after the alarm was raised at 11.47am on Wednesday, July 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrews remain in attendance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A road into a village in Angus was closed amid an incident at a property which sparked a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718570","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\/718570","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=718570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}