{"id":335149,"date":"2025-08-11T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335149\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:27:11","slug":"firefighters-battle-arthurs-seat-blaze-in-edinburgh-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335149\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle Arthur\u2019s Seat blaze in Edinburgh overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25378971.recap-latest-updates-arthurs-seat-fire-edinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency services were called to the scene at around 4.05pm<\/a> on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Smoke could be seen billowing into the sky from the hill, an extinct volcano in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/holyrood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holyrood<\/a> Park to the south-east of the city centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/scottish-fire-rescue-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Fire and Rescue Service<\/a> (SFRS) sent four fire engines and specialist resources to the incident on Sunday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25378835.read-watch-nationals-exclusive-bute-house-interview-john-swinney\/?rel=cl_lsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to read and watch The National&#8217;s exclusive Bute House interview with John Swinney<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Two appliances were at the scene at 6.30am on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There were no reports of any casualties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A SFRS spokesperson said:\u00a0&#8220;We were alerted at 4.05pm on Sunday, 10 August, to reports of a fire in the open at Arthur&#8217;s Seat, Edinburgh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Operations Control mobilised four fire appliances and specialist resources to the area where firefighters are working to extinguish a fire affecting a large area of gorse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There are no reported casualties at this time and crews remain at the scene.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Arthur&#8217;s Seat is one of the most well-known landmarks in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, and\u00a0is situated to the east of the city centre in the Holyrood area, near the Scottish Parliament.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: Peter Summers\/Getty Images)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Arthur&#8217;s Seat is an ancient extinct volcano and has\u00a0become a popular attraction for tourists, climbers and locals alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were called to the scene at around 4.05pm on Sunday. Smoke could be seen billowing into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-335149","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115008952274184735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335149","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=335149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}