{"id":167064,"date":"2025-06-08T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167064\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:50:30","slug":"huge-fire-breaks-out-at-edinburgh-banana-flats-as-flames-pour-from-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167064\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge fire breaks out at Edinburgh ‘Banana Flats’ as flames pour from balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local MP Tracy Gilbert shared shocking footage of the inferno last night and advised residents to get in touch if they need assistance.<\/p>\n

09:40, 07 Jun 2025Updated 11:07, 07 Jun 2025<\/p>\n

A huge fire<\/a> broke out at a tower block in Edinburgh last night.<\/p>\n

Emergency services<\/a> were called to Cables Wynd House in Leith after the alarm was raised at around 10.50pm on Friday.<\/p>\n

Pictures taken from the scene last night show flames<\/a> engulfing a two-floor property within the Banana Flats complex. Burn marks are visible on the outside of the window of an upper flat.<\/p>\n

Large plumes of black smoke<\/a> can be seen billowing from the home as fire crews worked through the night to battle the blaze. Nine fire engines were deployed to the scene last night.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe blaze broke out at Cables Wynd House in Leith(Image: Tracy Gilbert MP \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service<\/a> confirmed they extinguished the flames at around 7am on Saturday. Thankfully, nobody was injured in the blaze which is believed to have gutted the home in the tower block.<\/p>\n

Local MP Tracy Gilbert shared shocking footage of the inferno last night and advised residents to get in touch if they need assistance.<\/p>\n

In a post on Facebook<\/a>, the Labour MP wrote: “Awful scene from earlier at Cables Wynd. Fire now under control. I am waiting for an update from Police Scotland. If we can help anyone affected please message or email.”<\/p>\n

\"FireFire crews were called to the scene on Friday night(Image: Tracy Gilbert MP \/ Facebook)<\/p>\n

The curved tower block is known as Sick Boy\u2019s home in Trainspotting<\/a>. It was previously given A-list status by heritage chiefs.<\/p>\n

The development earned its ‘Banana Flats’ nickname due to the distinctive curved shape.<\/p>\n

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 11pm on Friday, 6 June 2025, police were advised by SFRS of a fire at a flat in Cables Wynd House, Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

“The flat was empty at the time. No one required to be taken to hospital. All residents, bar two households, have been allowed to return to the building. Enquiries into the cause of the fire, which at this time is not being treated as suspicious, are ongoing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local MP Tracy Gilbert shared shocking footage of the inferno last night and advised residents to get in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,528,530,712,1143,34380,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-167064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-labour-party","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue-service","15":"tag-trainspotting","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114646655106487264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}