Tag: fire

Son dies and father hospitalised in early morning blaze

A MAN has died during a blaze which also put his father in hospital. Michael Chambers was killed after the fire, spotted by a passing...

Terror as residents trapped by blaze in city flats

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

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

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

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

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...

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