Seventeen people had to be evacuated after a fire broke out at a ground-floor flat in Restalrig Crescent in the early hours of this morning.
Six were given oxygen at the scene, before three of those were taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We were alerted at 3.19am to a fire in a ground-floor flat at Restalrig Crescent in Edinburgh.
“Three appliances and a height appliance extinguished the fire using a high-power hose reel.
“Seventeen residents were evacuated and six casualties were given oxygen.
“Of those six, three were transferred to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.”
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.
