A woman was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where she was treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in a flat in Corstorphine during the early hours of this morning.
Firefighters were contacted just after 4am and three appliances and a height vehicle attended the scene in Alan Breck Gardens.
Crews extinguished the blaze and made the area safe.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 4.11am on Tuesday, December 15 to reports of a fire within a tenement at Alan Breck Gardens, Edinburgh.
“Operations Control mobilised three appliances and a height vehicle to the scene, where crews worked to extinguish the fire. There were no reported casualties.
“Firefighters left after making the area safe.”
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.
