{"id":134784,"date":"2025-05-27T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134784\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:29:10","slug":"firefighters-tackle-flames-as-huge-blaze-rips-through-popular-scots-takeaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134784\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters tackle flames as huge blaze rips through popular Scots takeaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LARGE fire has broken out at a popular Edinburgh fish and chip shop.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out this afternoon at the Sultan Takeaway in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/where\/edinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">capital&#8217;s<\/a> Bughtlin Market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters at the scene of a chip shop fire.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Alan Simpson\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/811953-fire-sultan-chip-shop-998363784.jpg\" data-caption=\"The cause of the fire is not yet known and firefighters remain at the scene\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/811953-fire-sultan-chip-shop-998363784.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is not yet known and firefighters remain at the sceneCredit: Alan Simpson<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters extinguishing a fire at a chip shop.\" height=\"803\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Alan Simpson\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/811953-fire-sultan-chip-shop-998363928.jpg\" data-caption=\"The blaze broke out this afternoon at the Sultan Takeaway\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/811953-fire-sultan-chip-shop-998363928.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out this afternoon at the Sultan TakeawayCredit: Alan Simpson<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/scottish-fire-and-rescue-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Fire and Rescue Service<\/a> dispatched seven engines to the scene after the alarm was raised at 4.27pm.<\/p>\n<p>Flames were spotted ripping through the premises earlier as black smoke billowed into the air.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is not yet known and firefighters remain at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: &#8220;We got the local at 4.27pm today and we currently have seven appliances in attendance and a few specialist appliances. We are still in attendance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LARGE fire has broken out at a popular Edinburgh fish and chip shop. The blaze broke out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,918,4884,530,712,1143,5119,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-134784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue-service","15":"tag-section-newsscottish-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114577445179878296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134784","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=134784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}