{"id":723497,"date":"2026-08-01T22:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723497\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:47:14","slug":"roads-closed-as-firefighters-tackle-blaze-at-stoneyhill-quarry-near-peterhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723497\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads closed as firefighters tackle blaze at Stoneyhill Quarry, near Peterhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are battling a blaze which has broken out at a quarry in Aberdeenshire. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to reports of a fire at Stoneyhill Quarry, at Longhaven, near to Peterhead at around 2.15pm on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is currently in attendance, with six appliances at the scene alongside five officers.<\/p>\n<p>Road closures have been put in place between Auchriries and Cairn Catto.<\/p>\n<p>Police have urged the public to avoid the area.<\/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":"Firefighters are battling a blaze which has broken out at a quarry in Aberdeenshire. Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723497","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\/723497","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=723497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}