Firefighters in Dundee have battled a serious blaze within the metropolis centre. The alarm was raised at about 3pm on Monday after studies of smoke in Brook Avenue.
The fireplace took maintain on the former Queen Victoria Works sending plumes of smoke within the air that may very well be seen throughout Tayside and north Fife.
Scottish Hearth and Rescue despatched six home equipment to the scene and so they battled in a single day to place the fireplace out and dampen the stays.
Locals had been informed to maintain their home windows shut and had been additionally suggested that water provides within the affected space may very well be interrupted as they battled the fireplace.
On the peak of the fireplace on Monday afternoon, Police Scotland mentioned: “Emergency providers are at the moment on the scene of a fireplace at Brook Avenue in Dundee which was reported round 3.20pm on Monday, 25 July.
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“The Scottish Hearth and Rescue Service is at the moment coping with the fireplace and whereas that is ongoing we might ask native residents to maintain doorways and home windows closed and to keep away from the realm.
“Native highway closures are in place with diversions in place.”
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