Watch Clermiston fire: Woman taken to hospital after flames rip through Edinburgh property

Emergency services were called to a building on fire in Alan Breck Gardens, Edinburgh, at 4.11am on Tuesday, 15 December.

A woman was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to be treated for smoke inhalation, but she has since been able to leave.

A resident in the area who took a video of the building up in flames said there were several fire engines and “loads of police” at the time of the fire.

She said: “I have been up since about 4am.

"I saw people taken away in an ambulance.

"There were loads of police too.”

The road was closed for about four hours while emergency services dealt with the incident.

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman 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."

A police spokeswoman said: “Around 4.20am on Tuesday, 15 December, 2020, officers received report of a fire at a property on Alan Breck Gardens, Edinburgh. One woman was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh with smoke inhalation and has since been released.

“Enquiries are ongoing to establish the cause of the fire. The road was re-opened around 8.15am.”

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