Fire crews race to West Lothian's St John's Hospital as blaze breaks out

Fire crews scrambled to a blaze on Thursday evening following reports of a fire at St John’s Hospital in West Lothian.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service mobilsed three appliances and a height appliance to tackle the blaze in Livingston.

The incident occurred at around 5.43pm on November 14 and up to 20 firefighters were at the scene.

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Locals reported seeing fire appliances race through Livingston to the hospital and the SFRS confirmed to Edinburgh Live a fire had broken out.

There were no reports of casualties.

A spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We received a call at 5.34pm on Wednesday regarding a fire at St John’s Hospital in Livingston.

“We can confirm there was a fire and our teams left the scene once it was extinguished. There were no casualties.”