{"id":334187,"date":"2025-08-10T22:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334187\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:10:15","slug":"huge-fire-sweeps-across-landmark-arthurs-seat-in-edinburgh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334187\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge fire sweeps across landmark Arthur\u2019s Seat in Edinburgh | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch as a huge blaze broke out on Arthur\u2019s Seat in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/edinburgh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/scotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland<\/a>, on 10 August, sending smoke billowing across the city skyline.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called just after 4pm on Sunday, with dramatic videos showing flames spreading across the hillside.<\/p>\n<p>A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson confirmed: \u201c\u201cOperations control mobilised four fire appliances and specialist resources to the area where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/firefighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firefighters<\/a> are working to extinguish a fire affecting a large area of gorse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No casualties have been reported so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch as a huge blaze broke out on Arthur\u2019s Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 10 August, sending smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334187","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-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334187","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=334187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}