{"id":159756,"date":"2025-06-05T08:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T08:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159756\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T08:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T08:39:11","slug":"huge-fire-rips-through-britains-second-largest-retail-park-as-smoke-billows-through-the-sky-and-can-be-seen-for-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159756\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge fire rips through Britain&#8217;s second largest retail park as smoke billows through the sky and can be seen for miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Fire crews have been called to a huge fire at Fort Kinnaird in Edinburgh as locals reported smoke visible for miles.<\/p>\n<p>Shops were forced to close early due to a power cut after an electrical fire saw two fire appliances dispatched on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Kinnaird is Britain&#8217;s second-largest retail park and hugely popular amongst shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services confirmed that no casualties have been reported.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"61434\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"8bc639fca99aa7747da75961b2026f68\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20810%20539'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fire.jpg\" width=\"810\" height=\"539\" alt=\"Fire\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fire crews have been called to a huge fire at Fort Kinnaird as locals reported smoke visible for miles on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>X<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service received a report of a fire around 5.34pm.<\/p>\n<p>An SFRS spokesperson said: &#8220;We received reports of an electrical substation fire at Fort Kinnaird at around 524pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two appliances were dispatched, we remain in attendance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Western Volkswagen said: &#8220;There has been a fire and power cut at Fort Kinnaird. All telephone lines are down and the dealership is closed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"fcfcd\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"121e64131804a21391a77af37c4c7738\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201090%20517'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fort-kinnaird-in-edinburgh.png\" width=\"1090\" height=\"517\" alt=\"Fort Kinnaird in Edinburgh\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vets4Pets at Fort Kinnaird said their computers and phones are down<\/p>\n<p>Google<\/p>\n<p>They added: &#8220;Sorry for any inconvenience caused from this. We <a href=\"http:\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\/>should be back open from 7am tomorrow morning as normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vets4Pets at Fort Kinnaird added: &#8220;Our computers and phones are down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been a fire near Fort Kinnaird that has affected power to our building. We <a href=\"http:\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\/>are hopeful this will be resolved by start of day tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The retail park, often referred to as &#8220;the Fort&#8221; to locals, is located off the A1 in the south-east of Edinburgh, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently the second largest retail park in the UK, with 75 units occupied covering 560,000 square feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews have been called to a huge fire at Fort Kinnaird in Edinburgh as locals reported smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,252,4884,12,712,16,1259,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-159756","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-fire","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-uk-news","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159756","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=159756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}