Seven people including three children have been taken to hospital after a fire in a three-storey building.
Firefighters were called to a block of flats in Ardencraig Drive in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow at about 10:20pm last night.
Six people were rescued from the building while another woman escaped through a window. All suffered from smoke inhalation.
Group manager Brian Winter said: "The firefighters led six people - three children, a woman and two men - to safety after quickly extinguishing the flames using a high pressure water jet. A second woman had already left her flat via a window.
"All seven casualties were cared for by firefighters and paramedics at the scene before being taken by ambulance to the Victoria Infirmary. Specialist fire investigation officers attended and are liaising with the police."
The fire began in the close of the building, and the fire service issued a warning for residents to check their property is protected by smoke alarms.
Mr Winter said: "Any fire within a communal close is extremely dangerous. Even small fires produce large amounts of toxic smoke, which will very quickly spread far beyond the area affected by the flames.
"It is important that communal closes and stairwells are kept free of any materials that could be involved in a fire or impede people attempting to leave the building. Working smoke alarms save lives."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article