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Edinburgh Live
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Kris Gourlay

Fire tears through Edinburgh award-winning fish and chip shop as residents evacuated

Fire crews rushed to a blaze which is understood to have started within an award-winning Edinburgh fish and chip shop on Wednesday evening as smoke could be seen pouring from the building.

Several crews were seen on Henderson Row with the fire believed to have started inside the popular L’Alba D’Oro chip shop around 10.30pm on April 12.

Residents in the flats above the shop were evacuated while crews extinguished the blaze, with the Scottish Fire and Rescue confirming there were no reported injuries.

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Three appliances from the SFRS as well as one height vehicle were mobilised to the scene from McDonald Road and Tollcross as firefighters left the scene after midnight having made the area secure.

The award-winning chippy was established back in 1975 and has been an ever-present in the Canonmills area. The family-run business expanded into the unit next door in 1978 and ten years later they bought the adjacent unit and created a pizza and pasta house.

The shop underwent a renovation recently to become an "upmarket fish and chip shop and pizzeria."

A spokesperson for the SFRS confirmed three pumps and one height appliances were mobilised to the scene on Henderson Row around 10.30pm on Wednesday night and there were no reported injuries.

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