Two given medical help after early morning blaze rips through Lanarkshire flat

A blaze gutted a flat in Strathaven within the early hours of this morning, with two residents handled by the ambulance service.

The fireplace broke out at Kirk Avenue in Strathaven - on the former Solar Lodge - shortly earlier than 4am this morning, with three fireplace engines racing to the scene.

Two casualties had been faraway from the constructing previous to firefighters arriving.

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A witness advised Lanarkshire Stay : "I wakened at 3.45 am this morning there was one fireplace engine there and by half 4 there have been three fireplace engines and an ambulance.

"I consider a girl, her son and a canine had been within the flat on the time, though all of them bought out. The flat is gutted although."

Three fireplace engines attended the scene (Picture: Stuart Vance/Attain PLC)

A Scottish Hearth and Rescue Service spokeswoman advised us : “We had been alerted at 3.43am this morning to reviews of a fireplace in a dwelling in Kirk Avenue, Strathaven.

“Operations management instantly mobilised three fireplace home equipment to the placement and firefighters extinguished the fireplace.

"Two casualties had been faraway from the constructing previous to the arrival of the Hearth Service and handed over to the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service.

“Crews left the scene after guaranteeing the world was made protected.”

Police Scotland have been contacted for a remark.

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