{"id":733467,"date":"2026-08-10T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733467\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:26:19","slug":"new-forest-fire-that-spread-from-van-now-size-of-140-football-pitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733467\/","title":{"rendered":"New Forest fire that spread from van now size of 140 football pitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire leaves park authority &#8216;devastated&#8217;published at 12:03 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:03 BST<\/p>\n<p>      Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Listen: BBC Radio Solent has been providing the latest on the fire<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire has raised concerns about its potential impact on the New Forest\u2019s fragile ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokeswoman for the New Forest National Park Authority says: \u201cIt\u2019s rare heathland, which globally is more rare than rainforest with lots of rare species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe have the highest concentration of lowland heathland in western Europe and it\u2019s internationally protected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt is home to all six UK native reptiles, Dartford warblers, nightjars, insects \u2013 it\u2019s devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spokeswoman added that it was too early to tell how much damage had been caused, with the response to the fire still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire leaves park authority &#8216;devastated&#8217;published at 12:03 BST 12:03 BST Media caption, Listen: BBC Radio Solent has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-733467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733467","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=733467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}