Folks have fled an enormous wildfire engulfing a well-known vacationer hotspot overlooking Edinburgh.
Smoke will be seen billowing for miles throughout the Scottish metropolis after the hearth broke out on Arthur’s Seat on Sunday at 4pm.
A witness advised Edinburgh Dwell: ‘There’s a main wildfire on Arthur’s Seat which is spreading quickly.
‘Individuals are operating down the face of the hill to get away from it and smoke is spreading actually quick.’
One other witness, strolling on the traditional extinct volcano, advised The Solar: ‘It was loopy how briskly the hearth was spreading.
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‘It began with only a small space and inside minutes it was large.
‘It’s actually windy up on the prime in order that shall be making it unfold quicker.’
One native advised Metro: ‘It’s nonetheless raging, the flames appear to have unfold to the opposite facet now.
‘Fortunately, I’m fairly distant so didn’t see anybody operating away.’
A Scottish Hearth and Rescue Service spokesperson confirmed there had been no casualties.
They stated: ‘We had been alerted at 4.05pm on Sunday, 10 August, to studies of a fireplace within the open at Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh.
‘Operations Management mobilised 4 hearth home equipment and specialist sources to the world the place firefighters are working to extinguish a hearth affecting a big space of gorse.
‘There aren’t any reported casualties presently and crews stay on the scene.’
A soccer match between Hibernian and Kilmarnock went forward with smoke billowing behind the stadium.
Hibs have thrown a two objective lead away and Arthur’s Seat is on hearth!! pic.twitter.com/OdtPL9H8XE
— Steve Mitchell (@barafundler) August 10, 2025
A Police Scotland spokesperson added: ‘Emergency companies are responding to a hearth at Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh. Motorists and pedestrians are suggested to keep away from the world.’
Arthur’s Seat is an extinct volcano and the primary peak of the hills in Holyrood Park, proper subsequent to Edinburgh’s metropolis centre.
There have been at the very least six fires in areas across the 251-metre-high Arthur’s Seat since 2018.
The Scottish Hearth and Rescue Service has issued wildfire warnings this yr, with the nation seeing a very warm and dry summer season.
Final month, the Highlands noticed the ‘greatest wildfires the nation has ever seen’, in accordance with landowners.
Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) estimated the fires that broke out in late June and early July affected 29,225 acres (11,827 hectares) – an space nearly 30 occasions greater than Lanarkshire’s Strathclyde Park.
It got here after an enormous hearth in Druridge Bay, Northumberland was attributable to a campfire.
A Northumberland Hearth and Rescue spokesperson stated: ‘We acquired studies of a big hearth on the dunes at Druridge Bay at 11:54 on Sunday 10 August.
‘The hearth is believed to have been began by a campfire, which bought uncontrolled. 4 home equipment and a fogging unit are presently in attendance and the hearth is now below management.’
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