{"id":674155,"date":"2026-01-04T22:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674155\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:27:13","slug":"edinburgh-fire-crews-race-to-scene-of-blaze-as-bin-fire-threatens-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674155\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh fire crews race to scene of blaze as bin fire threatens property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SFRS mobilised two appliances, one of which remained on scene two hours after the initial call.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_7286a8f8-81b2-42ba-873c-42606c165c36jfif.jpg\" alt=\"The bin fire was affecting the property.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The bin fire was affecting the property.(Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Edinburgh <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/scottish-fire-and-rescue\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">fire crews<\/a> were called to a property in the Clermiston area of the city on Sunday, January 4. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) were called to a property on Drum Brae Drive at 3.25pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They received reports of a bin on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/scottish-fire-and-rescue\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">fire<\/a>, which then began to affect a nearby property. The SFRS mobilised two appliances, one of which remained on scene two hours after the initial call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/scottish-fire-and-rescue\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">SFRS<\/a> spokesperson confirmed: &#8220;We had a few repeated calls for reports of a bin alight that was affecting the building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We received the initial call at 3.25pm and sent two appliances, we still have one in attendance now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">One local resident told Edinburgh Live: &#8220;They&#8217;d shut down the lane going up to the leisure centre. Whole area stank of smoke.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SFRS mobilised two appliances, one of which remained on scene two hours after the initial call.The bin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,205026,1102,4884,712,119809,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-674155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-clermiston","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115839188843410531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674155","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=674155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}