An Edinburgh woman was rescued from a flat block in Leith during a fire incident on Wednesday evening.
Authorities have released more details about the incident that saw four fire appliances and one height appliance respond to Leith’s Cables Wynd House, also known as the Banana Flats on 2 November just after 4pm.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said the units responded to a second floor balcony fire, and reported that one woman was handed to Scottish Ambulance Service for undisclosed injuries.
Photographs of the scene showed multiple fire appliances with more than 15 firefighters and a Police Scotland van on sight outside Cables Wynd House ten storey block of flats in Leith Wednesday evening, and on Thursday, authorities confirmed they were on scene for a fire.
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A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: "We were alerted at 4.05pm on Wednesday, 2 November to reports of a fire affecting a balcony on the second floor of a ten-storey block of flats on Cables Wynd, Edinburgh.
"Operations Control mobilised four appliances and a height vehicle to the scene to extinguish the fire and make the area safe.
"One female casualty was handed into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service."
The banana flats are well known in Edinburgh as the home of Sick Boy in the iconic Edinburgh-set novel Trainspotting. The blocks are huge, elongated, 10-storey behemoths that dominate the skyline of Leith, commonly referred to as the "Banana Flats" due to its distinctive curved design.
The flats are near the Water of Leith close to the harbour.
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