{"id":723116,"date":"2026-08-01T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723116\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:32:12","slug":"second-large-fire-at-cannock-chase-within-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723116\/","title":{"rendered":"Second large fire at Cannock Chase within two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters are tackling a large fire at Cannock Chase &#8211; the second to break out in the area in two days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said five engines and two rangers had been called near to the Seven Springs car park at about 13:30 BST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is not clear what the cause of the fire is, and the service have asked the public to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after a fire on Thursday, caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg4e2vndv2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a disposable barbecue<\/a>, that destroyed a football pitch-sized area of protected heath land in Sherbrook Valley. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire killed animals including toads and adders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Disposable barbecues are banned on Cannock Chase due to the dangers they pose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cannock Chase Special Area of Conservation Partnership said: &#8220;The latest fire is in forestry land near Seven Springs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Please be extra vigilant in this long dry spell and report anything you are concerned about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even if you can smell burning but can&#8217;t see smoke or flames it could be the start of a fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are tackling a large fire at Cannock Chase &#8211; the second to break out in the area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723116","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\/723116","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=723116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}