Edinburgh fire crews swoop on tenement building blaze as busy road closed off

Firefighters raced to a tenement building in Edinburgh on Friday evening, November 15.

Four crews, including three pump appliances and one height appliance was mobilised to extinguish a ' small blaze' within the common stair of the building on Polwarth Gardens.

Scottish Fire and Rescue were made aware around 3.45pm and left the scene around 5.14pm.

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It's not known if there have been any injuries. In pictures seen by Edinburgh Live, the road was closed while firefighters handled the incident.

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An SFRS spokesperson said: "The call came in at 3.45pm. We mobilised three appliances and one height appliance.

"It was a small fire within the common stair of the building. We left the scene at 17.14pm."

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