A man was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary suffering from smoke inhalation following a fire at a four-storey tenement in Downfield Place which left people trapped on the upper floors.
Several children and adults were evacuated from the building by emergency services were called around 9.30pm last night,
The fire is believed to have started in the bedroom of a ground floor flat and spread from there.
“A further three adults and three children were led to safety by firefighters during the course of the incident.
“Because the flat on the ground floor was on fire, people were trapped by heat and smoke on the upper floors.”
Firefighters had brought the blaze under control by 10.10pm.
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.
