Tag: fire

Terror as residents trapped by blaze in city flats

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 29, 2013

TERRIFIED city centre residents screamed for help yesterday after they were trapped in their homes by a massive blaze. Witnesses reported a bang and shower...

Fears as firefighters fail fitness tests

Scottish News

Guest - October 31, 2012

CONCERNS have been raised about fire cover in the Highlands after six out of seven new recruits failed a fitness test. The trainees - including...

Firefighters tackle fires in their own stations too

Scottish News

Guest - October 19, 2012

TEAMS of Scottish fire fighters have battled more than 40 blazes in the past decade – in their own stations and fire engines. Crews across...

Flat gutted by backdraft inferno

Scottish News

Guest - August 3, 2012

A DOG has died and a woman taken to hospital after a fire in the stairwell of an Edinburgh flat. The black Labrador dog perished...

Hill fire seen from space

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - March 28, 2012

SMOKE from a massive hillside blaze which destroyed hundreds of acres of moorland was photographed from space. A NASA satellite captured the inferno near Dumfries...