Man taken to hospital after Edinburgh flat fire

Emergency services were called in the early hours of Sunday morning

Published 19th Mar 2017

A man has been taken to hospital following a fire in a flat in Edinburgh.

Firefighters were called to the scene in Queensferry Road at 5.46am on Sunday.

They extinguished the blaze in the basement flat and remained at the scene for a while to ventilate the property.

Firefighters removed one man from the flat. He was taken by ambulance to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.