{"id":723061,"date":"2026-08-01T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723061\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:47:12","slug":"suffolk-heathland-fire-stable-say-crews-and-fundraiser-set-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723061\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk heathland fire stable, say crews, and fundraiser set up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A trio of friends from Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, who were camping at Cliff House Holiday Park, ended up sleeping in a cosy VW Golf on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t get much sleep,&#8221; said Lynne Sawyer, speaking to the BBC at Westleton village earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crowds attended the market and Barbara Buckley, chairwoman of the trustees of Westleton Village Hall, said: &#8220;I thought it would be a good thing for people to be able to chat about things that aren&#8217;t about the fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the people helped were primary school age children from countries including Hong Kong, Singapore and Germany, taking part in the Pro Corda summer music school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had to evacuate from the grounds of Leiston Abbey, three miles from the wildfire, but local boarding school Framlingham College offered them alternative accommodation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My phone was blowing up with worried calls from parents &#8211; some of these kids have never been away from home before,&#8221; said course organiser Annabel Thwaite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trio of friends from Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, who were camping at Cliff House Holiday Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723061","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\/723061","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=723061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}