Firefighters were called to a kitchen fire in the ground floor of a seven-storey building in Salamander Court in Leith at around 12.15am this morning.
Four appliances were sent from McDonald Road and Marionville stations and firefighters used breathing apparatus and a hose reel jet to extinguish the blaze.
A man and woman suffered smoke inhalation.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “A man and a woman were treated for smoke inhalation at the scene by paramedics. However, they did not require hospital treatment.”
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
