Roads have been closed and nearby homes evacuated after a derelict tenement building collapsed in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
The building at the corner of Kenmure Street and Albert Drive in Pollockshields came crashing down shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n
Former River City actor and musician Tom Urie, who was walking past at the time said he had a lucky escape, likening it to an “Indiana Jones movie”.<\/p>\n
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it sent eight appliances to the scene, but there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n
The building has been lying derelict for about five years after it was gutted by a fire during lockdown.<\/p>\n
Urie, who lives locally, described how he was returning home from a party moments before it fell down.<\/p>\n
“I started hearing weird noises and at first I thought there were people in there smashing things up,” he told BBC Scotland News.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was a weird time of night to be demolishing something.<\/p>\n
“It became apparent that something awful was about to happen so I got across the street and turned round and saw the whole fa\u00e7ade of the building collapse.”<\/p>\n
Mobile phone footage recorded by Urie shows dust clouds drifting down the street after the Kenmure Street side crumbled and the walls on Albert Drive were left “hanging by a thread”.<\/p>\n
Urie, who played “Big Bob” O’Hara in River City, described how instinctively he ran for his life.<\/p>\n
“I realised I hadn’t run since I was eight so it felt like a rather overweight 56-year-old Indiana Jones running away from a collapsing building.<\/p>\n
“I was quite frightened, but it was also a shame because it was such a gorgeous old tenement.”<\/p>\n
The tenement block was one of two buildings badly damaged by fire within months of each other on the same crossroads several years ago.<\/p>\n
Urie said the burnt-out shell was fenced off and there was no access to the pavement but there had been local concern about its safety for some time.<\/p>\n
“We’ve all been really worried because it looks unsafe and it has been sitting there for such a long time without anybody doing anything,” he said.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “A number of nearby residences were evacuated as firefighters worked to make the building safe”.<\/p>\n
The last firefighters left the scene at about 03:00.<\/p>\n
The area was fenced off on Saturday morning while officials inspected the site.<\/p>\n
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