{"id":725353,"date":"2026-08-03T02:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725353\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:57:43","slug":"firefighters-work-through-the-night-to-battle-blaze-at-stoneyhill-quarry-near-peterhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725353\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters work through the night to battle blaze at Stoneyhill Quarry near Peterhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters have worked through the night to battle a blaze which broke out at a quarry in Aberdeenshire. <\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to reports of a fire at Stoneyhill Quarry at Longhaven, near Peterhead, at around 2.15pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Six appliances and five officers were called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8fbdbf5573b18fae93736180f8d0197a-1785665895.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"900\"   alt=\"\"\/>Best Viewed From Above<\/p>\n<p>Drone footage from the scene shows a large plume of smoke rising from buildings at the landfill site.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, SFRS said a number of crews were still at the scene dampening down hot spots.<\/p>\n<p>Four appliances remain at the landfill site as of 5pm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4058282846fc3b079a20eb00a40a881c-1785665759.jpg\" width=\"8064\" height=\"6048\"   alt=\"\"\/>Best Viewed From Above<\/p>\n<p>Police said the fire is not believed to be suspicious and there are no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Road closures which were put in place have now been lifted.<\/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 have worked through the night to battle a blaze which broke out at a quarry in Aberdeenshire.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725353","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\/725353","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=725353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}