{"id":79930,"date":"2026-07-14T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wildfires-burn-across-uk-as-fire-chiefs-warn-of-extreme-pressure\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:23:28","slug":"wildfires-burn-across-uk-as-fire-chiefs-warn-of-extreme-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wildfires-burn-across-uk-as-fire-chiefs-warn-of-extreme-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires burn across UK as fire chiefs warn of extreme pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildfires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyey14r4wzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">over the weekend<\/a> also affected Hampshire, Durham, West Sussex, East Sussex, Devon and Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Wales, the major incident declared over the Conwy wildfire has now been brought under control, according to North Wales Fire and Rescue Service assistant chief fire officer Justin Evans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But firefighters are still tackling several active blazes, including in Braichmelyn forestry near Bethesda and the Rhinogydd mountain range near Harlech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farmer Gareth Wyn Jones, whose land borders the Conwy Mountain, said he had &#8220;never seen anything of that scale&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was unreal,&#8221; he said, adding that while ponies grazing on the mountain had escaped, he feared for a neighbour&#8217;s pigs as flames swept through surrounding land. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The biggest worry was that they were going to suffocate in the smoke, but the smoke did carry over them,&#8221; he said, confirming the animals had survived.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyey14r4wzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfires over the weekend also affected Hampshire, Durham, West Sussex, East Sussex, Devon and Somerset. In Wales, the major incident declared over the Conwy wildfire has now been brought under control, according to North Wales Fire and Rescue Service assistant chief fire officer Justin Evans. But firefighters are still tackling several active blazes, including in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[15324,4673,1192,666,584,400,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79932,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79930\/revisions\/79932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}