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 the fourteenth floor of the building.
Four appliances from Marionville and McDonald Road fire stations, a height appliance and the Command Support Unit were mobilised to the scene. Four firefighters in breathing apparatus used the internal dry riser and a line of hose to extinguish the fire.
They rescued a woman from the property and she was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Tragically, she was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
A fire investigation into the cause will now take place.
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