{"id":333692,"date":"2025-08-10T17:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333692\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T17:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:35:18","slug":"huge-fire-breaks-out-at-popular-uk-tourist-hotspot-as-thick-black-smoke-seen-for-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/333692\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge fire breaks out at popular UK tourist hotspot as thick black smoke seen for miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A fire has broken out at Arthur&#8217;s Seat in Edinburgh with smoke pouring into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Orange flames could be seen from the landmark above the Scottish capital, with one eyewitness reporting seeing people &#8220;running down the hill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"29afa\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d0c7f5d6645067ffe5974cf50732cc6b\" 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%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/u200bfire-broke-out.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\\u200bFire broke out\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>Fire broke out at the Edinburgh capital<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"94a73\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"ce82477bfa8f5429fbb344548f47bb9a\" 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%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/u200bmembers-of-the-public-watch-the-large-clouds-of-smoke-from-the-fire-on-arthur-s-seat-in-holyroo.png\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\\u200bMembers of the public watch the large clouds of smoke from the fire on Arthur's Seat in Holyrood Park\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>Members of the public watch the large clouds of smoke from the fire on Arthur&#8217;s Seat in Holyrood Park<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said: &#8220;We have three appliances and specialist services in attendance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness told Edinburgh Live: &#8220;There is a major wildfire on Arthur&#8217;s Seat which spreading rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are running down the face of the hill to get away from it and smoke is spreading really fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to follow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire has broken out at Arthur&#8217;s Seat in Edinburgh with smoke pouring into the sky. Orange flames&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[113921,748,1102,252,4884,12,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-333692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-across-the-uk","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333692","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=333692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}