{"id":674425,"date":"2026-01-05T01:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674425\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:27:14","slug":"edinburgh-emergency-services-and-water-rescue-team-descends-on-popular-beauty-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674425\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh emergency services and water rescue team descends on popular beauty spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SFRS confirmed that they mobilised two water rescue teams and two appliances to the location.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_Threipmuir-reservoirJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Threipmuir Reservoir\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Threipmuir Reservoir(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Water rescue teams raced to an <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\">incident <\/a>at an Edinburgh beauty spot on Sunday, January 4. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (<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>) were called to Threipmuir Reservoir, near the Pentlands at around 2.57pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">While the exact nature of the <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\">incident <\/a>is currently not known, the SFRS confirmed that they mobilised two water rescue teams and two appliances to the location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A SFRS spokesperson said: &#8220;We were in attendance, we mobilised two water rescue teams and two appliances. We got the initial call at 2.47pm on Sunday, January 4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police Scotland have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Join <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/strong><\/a><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">and get the latest news sent <\/strong><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">straight to your messages.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SFRS confirmed that they mobilised two water rescue teams and two appliances to the location.Threipmuir Reservoir(Image: Google&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,205081,712,119809,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-674425","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-pentlands","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115839896331114601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674425","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=674425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}