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Claire Galloway

Two people rushed to hospital after blaze at four-storey Glasgow tenement

Emergency services raced to a Glasgow street after a blaze broke out in flats.

The alarm was raised, with reports of a house fire, on Daisy Street shortly after 6pm on Tuesday, August 24.

Fire rushed to the scene where they discovered a blaze on the ground floor of a four-storey tenement building.

Two fire engines were called in to bring the inferno under control.

It's understood two casualties were treated by paramedics at the scene last night. It is not yet known if they required hospital treatment.

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 6.08pm on Tuesday, August 24 to reports of a house on fire at Daisy Street, Glasgow.

“Operations Control mobilised two appliances and one height vehicle and firefighters extinguished a fire affecting a ground floor flat of a four-storey tenement building.

“Two casualties were in the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service and crews left after ensuring the area was made safe.”

A spokesperson or the Scottish Ambulance Service said: “We received a call at 18:23 on Tuesday 24 August 2021 to attend an incident on Daisy Street, Glasgow. One ambulance and a specialist operations response team (SORT) were dispatched and two patients were treated at the scene.”

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