Emergency companies have been referred to as to Craigentinny Highway close to Leith after the alarm was raised at round 5.15pm on Monday.
A busy road in Edinburgh was sealed off whereas hearth crews battled a blaze this night.
Emergency companies have been referred to as to Craigentinny Highway close to Leith after the alarm was raised at round 5.15pm on Monday. The Scottish Fireplace and Rescue Service have been responding to a name of smoke billowing from a property.
4 hearth engines raced to the scene together with one high-reach equipment. Crews battled the blaze from the excessive attain equipment earlier than efficiently extinguishing the hearth by 6.20pm.
Photographs from the scene, which have been shared with Edinburgh Dwell, present the busy road at a halt with a police car on web site. Two Lothian buses may be seen amid the halted visitors behind hearth home equipment.
The reason for the hearth isn’t at present identified however there have been no reported casualties. A spokesperson from the Scottish Fireplace and Rescue Service stated: “We obtained a name to Craigentinny Highway round 5.17pm of stories of smoke issuing from a property. We dispatched 4 home equipment and one excessive attain equipment.
“There was smoke issuing from the roof and our crews used the excessive attain equipment whereas extinguishing the hearth. By 6.20pm the hearth was extinguished and the final equipment left at 6.45pm. There have been no casualties. The reason for the hearth isn’t at present identified.”
Police Scotland has been approached for remark. It comes after an enormous hearth burned down a enterprise park in an unrelated incident in Inverness.
A probe is underway after a automotive was intentionally pushed into the Fairways Leisure Park and torched. A Skoda Octavia was pushed right into a constructing on the enterprise park shortly after midnight on Sunday.
The premises and automotive have been then set alight inflicting important injury. A person carrying darkish clothes and a balaclava was noticed operating away from the scene.
Police have launched a probe into the incident and say they need to communicate to the occupants of a white choose up truck seen within the space on the time.
A big emergency service response was dispatched to the scene. Six home equipment have been despatched with crews battling the inferno from peak to cease the flames spreading.
Fireplace crews battled till 3am to deliver the hearth underneath management. Law enforcement officials, ambulance crews and employees from SSE Electrical energy have been additionally on scene for practically three hours. There have been no stories of any accidents, police have stated.
The constructing is shared by quite a few native companies. It’s understood a hair salon, bakery, journey agent and fishmongers are amongst these affected.
Images taken on Sunday morning revealed the extent of devastation attributable to the hearth. A burnt-out silver motor might be seen hanging out of the entrance of the destroyed constructing.
