Tag: Fire

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) has advised that five of their colleagues were taken to hospital today and one is in a critical condition.SFRS was alerted at 11.29am on Monday, January...

A fire which appears to have started in the area being the access road to the top of Calton Hill took hold of bushes on both sides of the road late on Sunday afternoon.The...

Vandals caused around £2,000 of damage to the hut owned by charity, Earth in Common this weekend.Chief Executive, Evie Murray, explained to us that she discovered the damage to the shed at 7.00am...

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) and Scottish Natural Heritage have both offered timely advice to help anyone visiting the countryside (or the Braids or Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh where there have reportedly been...

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has been dealing with a wild fire near Glencorse Reservoir near Penicuik since earlier this afternoon.Edinburgh Operations Control received a call just before noon and sent two appliances from Penicuik and Sighthill...

Two residents of a flat in Dundee Street got a rude awakening in the early hours this morning when a fire was discovered.Crews from Tollcross and Sighthill fire stations were sent by Edinburgh Operations Control...

Firefighters dealt with a fire and evacuation of patients from the Royal Victoria Building in the Western General Hospital in the early hours of this morning. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) were alerted to a...

Firefighters were called to a small fire in a kitchen at a house in Blackthorn Court this morning just after 9:00am.Crews from Marionville and Crewe Toll were mobilised by Operations Control Edinburgh and on arrival discovered...

A chip pan fire in the early hours of this morning left a man with slight burns on his hands.The man was taken to hospital after a chip pan fire in the kitchen of...

 A man has died in a fire which broke out in a flat in Gordon Street yesterday afternoon.The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was called to the fire this lunchtime.Crews from McDonald Road, Tollcross...

Over £40 Million goes up in smoke each year due to outdoor fires, many of which result from careless or irresponsible behaviour, with the Easter Weekend one of the busiest of the year for...

An Edinburgh Napier spokesperson said: “We were forced to close our Merchiston Campus today following a small fire which we believe was caused by an overheated piece of equipment in a woodwork shop on...

Students were evacuated from Merchiston Campus today as a fire spread through the building at Edinburgh Napier University,  on Colinton Road at 10.55 am today. Students gathered  outside and assumed it was routine.Edinburgh Napier student,...

Fire crews from Sighthill, Crewe Toll and South Queensferry were called to piles of rubbish on fire in a field near Hallyards Farm House in Kirkliston early this morning.The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service...

A fire was reported last night about 7:00pm and required assistance from about 30 firefighters at the height of the blaze.The first photo came from Live Edinburgh News Fire rips through Granary Pub in Leith...

The Community Centre on Kirk Loan has been greatly damaged by fire this week. We spoke to the local councillor Frank Ross who will be involved in the restitution of the building.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXtj6Pp2R7g&w=480&h=360]

A car on fire in Thistle Street caused an amount of  interest from passers-by. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service attended and put the fire out around 8:30 on Thursday morning 22 August 2013....

A 50-year-old woman who died after a fire in a flat in Edinburgh on Sunday morning has been named locally as Audrey Johnstone.Firefighters were called to a report of a fire in a top...

A 37-year-old man has died after being rescued by firefighters from a fire in a block of flats at Restalrig Road in Edinburgh in the early hours of this morning.Another man, aged 64, was...

The air in the city centre was so thick with smoke around 5.30 this evening that The Reporter met people coming out of offices near York Place believing that their buildings were perhaps on...

A 95-year-old woman was treated for smoke inhalation after a microwave went on fire in her Edinburgh home yesterday evening.Firefighters were called to a tenement building on Dunedin Street shortly before 6.30pm after a...

A woman has died after a fire in a high-rise flat in Edinburgh today.Firefighters were called to Nisbet Court in Restalrig at 10.43 am to a report of a fire in a flat on...

A 38-year-old woman needed to be given oxygen for smoke inhalation after a serious fire in the bedroom of her flat in Livingston, West Lothian earlier today. The woman had been in her bed sleeping...

A woman has died after a serious flat fire in Edinburgh on Wednesday evening. This was the second fatality in twelve hours, following the fire at a flat in Powderhall where a man died...

A man has died after a fire in Edinburgh this morning.Around 40 firefighters tackled the blaze at Powderhall Rigg in Edinburgh today. Fire Control received a call at 9.50am to a report of a fire...

A man has been taken to hospital with severe smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in his Edinburgh home.Fire crews were called to Ramsay Place, in the Portobello area of the city, just...

A man and a woman had to be treated for smoke inhalation after a suspected deliberate stair fire in Edinburgh yesterday afternoon. Two engines from Crewe Toll and a height appliance were mobilised to West...

Police in Edinburgh can confirm that they are treating a fire that broke out in a block of flats in the south of the city last night as suspicious.The fire broke out in the...

UPDATED AT 14.27Neighbours had to be evacuated by the fire and rescue service in the early hours of this morning after a house fire on North Bughtlin Gate in the East Craigs area of...

A 45-year-old man has died after a fire in a property in Dunbar, East Lothian this morning.Fifteen firefighters on appliances from Dunbar, Haddington and East Linton were mobilised to the High Street in Dunbar...