Fire crews battle major blaze on Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat

Hundreds of residents and campers evacuated from the Cairngorms area as a safety precaution; no casualties reported in Arthur's Seat fire.

Beneath a sky turned hazy with smoke, Scotland found itself contending with two significant wildfires simultaneously — one at the foot of Edinburgh's ancient Arthur's Seat, another consuming six square kilometers of Cairngorms moorland for a fourth consecutive day. The fires are not merely accidents of summer but expressions of a landscape rendered dangerously dry by prolonged heat, testing the limits of emergency services stretched across the breadth of the country. Hundreds have been displaced, landmarks threatened, and a national park placed under siege — all while the weather that made it

Fire crews battle major blaze on Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat

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