{"id":934767,"date":"2026-05-03T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934767\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:07:28","slug":"crews-battle-fires-at-edinburgh-beauty-spot-as-site-and-trees-left-burnt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934767\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle fires at Edinburgh beauty spot as site and trees left burnt out"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘This makes me so angry’\"The<\/p>\n

The site was left burnt out(Image: Pentland Hills \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n

Crews at an Edinburgh beauty spot have been forced to deal with a number of fires as the capital saw higher temperatures. Rangers put out a blaze on Friday and also halted a group that planned to have a large, open fire.<\/p>\n

Images shared on social media show trees burnt out <\/a>as a result. Rangers removed a wooden pallet from the individuals ahead of their plan.<\/p>\n

It comes as temperatures increased throughout the past few days, with many visitors flocking to popular beauty spots.<\/p>\n

A statement on the Pentland Hills Regional Park’s Facebook reads: “Today our rangers dealt with another fire and have just removed a wooden pallet from a group of individuals who were planning to have a large open fire.”<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people shared their thoughts on the fire and described the individuals as having “little regard for the environment”.<\/p>\n

Another person said: “This makes me so angry”.<\/p>\n

A second added: “They have no idea how this impacts on the wild spaces for everyone. That’s down right vandalism”.<\/p>\n

A third wrote: “Another bunch of people with no countryside skills.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘This makes me so angry’ The site was left burnt out(Image: Pentland Hills \/ Facebook) Crews at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,205081,712,119809,16,15],"class_list":["post-934767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-pentlands","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116510094202872615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934767","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=934767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}