{"id":872069,"date":"2026-04-04T18:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/872069\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:24:28","slug":"edinburgh-police-and-paramedics-race-to-incident-at-the-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/872069\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh police and paramedics race to &#8216;incident&#8217; at The Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I hope everyone is okay&#8217;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An emergency response was at the scene \" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_00103931-7ddc-4af3-a654-f0b73763bc41.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"An emergency response was at the scene \" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">An emergency response was at the scene <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Edinburgh police and paramedics were at the scene of an &#8216;incident&#8217; at The Meadows on Saturday afternoon. A large emergency response was spotted around 1pm on April 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A police car and three ambulance vehicles were in attendance. The responders were halted at the side of the park near Melville Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Edinburgh Live understands this was in relation to concern for a person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">One passer-by confirmed an ambulance remained at the scene around 1.50pm. They said: &#8220;Not sure what&#8217;s happened but paramedics are still there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Police left not long ago. I hope everyone is okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Scottish Ambulance Service 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><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a aria-label=\"Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community hereLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here<\/a><\/strong> <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I hope everyone is okay&#8217; An emergency response was at the scene Edinburgh police and paramedics were at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,530,712,13390,247514,16,15],"class_list":["post-872069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-police-scotland","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-ambulance-service","tag-the-meadows","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116347841499334860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872069","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=872069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}