{"id":728717,"date":"2026-08-05T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:34:09","slug":"cannock-chase-wildfire-tackled-by-multiple-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728717\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannock Chase wildfire tackled by multiple crews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The blaze on 30 July was believed to have been caused by a disposable barbecue, which are banned at Cannock Chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an update at about 20:00 BST, a county council spokesperson confirmed road closures were in place with Chase Road shut from Brocton to Camp Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire service has urged residents to avoid the area while the latest fire is dealt with and to keep windows and doors closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staffordshire Police were also in attendance and setting up a cordon, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PCSO Chad Carrington said officers had been called to the scene of &#8220;yet another wildfire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Please, please don&#8217;t start fires at Cannock Chase, leave barbecues at home, try and protect this landscape,&#8221; he urged the public in a video on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blaze on 30 July was believed to have been caused by a disposable barbecue, which are banned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728717","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\/728717","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=728717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}