{"id":764218,"date":"2026-09-08T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:42:10","slug":"crews-to-leave-holme-fen-nature-reserve-after-month-long-peat-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764218\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews to leave Holme Fen nature reserve after month-long peat fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith added: &#8220;We have seen crews from every fire station attend at some point during the response, as well as the fantastic support we&#8217;ve received from our colleagues across the country through National Resilience arrangements. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been an extremely tough incident, especially with the gruelling hot weather we&#8217;ve seen over the last month or so, but we have reached a point where we feel it is safe for us to withdraw all crews and hand the site back over to Natural England.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith, who called it &#8220;an unprecedented fire&#8221; also praised the strong community response from local residents, farmers and organisations, who rallied around to provide food and support to the crews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also thanked partners including the Environment Agency for their &#8220;major role in ensuring we had water supplies&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith added: &#8220;We have seen crews from every fire station attend at some point during the response, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764218","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=764218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}