Jon Henderson, SFRS assistant chief officer, said the service had dealt with a number of incidents over the course of the weekend, including wildfires.
“We’ve had crews at Arthur’s Seat since about 15:00 on Sunday afternoon and then overnight,” he told BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast.
“At first light we stepped up that response again when the conditions were favourable for that.
“The feeling from the ground there is that we will probably be there for a couple of days continuing to tackle it and dampen out hotspots.”
Henderson said it was too early to speculate on the cause of the fire.
“Our focus at the moment is dealing with the fire and the response but there will be a full fire investigation,” he said.
“The difficult we have with wildfires is that they can be difficult to assess where they started because of the scale and sometimes these do happen naturally.”
