{"id":1099352,"date":"2026-07-19T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1099352\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:11:18","slug":"arthurs-seat-fire-crews-tackle-blaze-on-edinburgh-landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1099352\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur\u2019s Seat fire: Crews tackle blaze on Edinburgh landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fire crews are fighting a blaze that broke out at Arthur\u2019s Seat in Edinburgh on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has four appliances at the scene after responding to reports of the fire at 6.38pm.<\/p>\n

It came as SFRS continued to battle a wildfire in the Cairngorms, which has been burning since Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said: \u201cWe were alerted at 6.38pm on Sunday 19 July to reports of a fire in the open at Arthur\u2019s Seat in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cOperations Control mobilised four fire appliances and crews are still at the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no reported casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA wildfire burning in the Cairngorms National Park in northeast Scotland (PA)<\/p>\n

Earlier on Sunday Cairngorms park officials said the large-scale wildfire affecting the region is now \u201clargely surrounded\u201d, and expect evacuated residents to be able to return home \u201clater today\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Sunday afternoon, park bosses said the fire, which burnt around four square kilometres at its peak, is largely under control.<\/p>\n

The park authority announced that the incident remains ongoing, nevertheless, with fire crews and other partners tackling the blaze together.<\/p>\n

Park bosses said resources, including helicopter support, have been integral in battling the fire in tougher-to-reach areas.<\/p>\n

Gavin Miles, director of planning and place at the park authority, said: \u201cNews from Glenmore this morning is very encouraging, with colleagues from SFRS indicating that the fire is now largely surrounded. This is, though, still a live situation and teams are still very active on the ground, so we are taking nothing for granted at this stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really grateful for the continued efforts of everyone helping fight the fire in Glenmore, and for the co-operation of local residents, visitors and businesses at what I know is a very difficult time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ski Road and surrounding areas are likely to be off-limits for some time to come, given the sheer number of people and machinery on-site, but we\u2019re hopeful that residents and campers directly impacted by the exclusion zone will be able to gain access later today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1099353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[272866,24785,748,300075,47671,1102,274349,728,16187,296136,296137,4884,44888,457,2249,292316,712,16,15,741],"class_list":["post-1099352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-accidents-and-disasters","tag-arthurs-seat","tag-britain","tag-close-to","tag-color-image","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-scotland","tag-environment","tag-equipment","tag-fire-natural-phenomenon","tag-forest-fire","tag-great-britain","tag-horizontal","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-rescue-worker","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116948702727538014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}