{"id":734805,"date":"2026-08-11T18:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734805\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:38:11","slug":"crews-tackle-ongoing-large-grassland-fire-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734805\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews tackle &#8216;ongoing&#8217; large grassland fire in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fire crews from 20 appliances are tackling a large ongoing grassland fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said it received multiple calls reporting the grassfire at about 14:50 BST in Mincinglake Valley Park in Exeter, Devon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the service said crews expected the fire would be ongoing for &#8220;some time&#8221; and the scene had been &#8220;sectorised&#8221; as part of efforts to prevent it from spreading further. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were also currently at the scene and they were urging members of the public to &#8220;avoid the area&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews from 20 appliances are tackling a large ongoing grassland fire. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734805","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\/734805","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=734805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}