{"id":626566,"date":"2025-12-11T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/626566\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:10:14","slug":"2-in-hospital-after-fire-closes-edinburghs-grassmarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/626566\/","title":{"rendered":"2 in hospital after fire closes Edinburgh&#8217;s Grassmarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Emergency services attended a blaze on Heriot Bridge following reports received at around 10.40am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Two men were taken to hospital following the incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Buses were rerouted while the public was asked to avoid the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25689187.first-project-grangemouth-site-announced-refinery-closure\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>First project at Grangemouth site announced after refinery closure<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/police-scotland\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> issued an updated statement saying: &#8220;Emergency services attended and the fire was out by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/scottish-fire-rescue-service\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Fire and Rescue Service<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Two men were taken to hospital for treatment. The fire is not being treated as suspicious.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Thank you to the public for their patience.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Several police vehicles were in attendance, while firefighters were seen on a top floor balcony.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Heriot Bridge is a street leading up from the Grassmarket towards George Heriot&#8217;s School.\n<\/p>\n<p>  Due to the road closure, Lothian buses were unable to serve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forrest Road and Grassmarket and were instead diverted via Lauriston Place and Lady Lawson Street towards Hermiston Gait.\n  <\/li>\n<li>Bread Street and Grassmarket and were instead diverted via Lothian Road and Lauriston Place towards The Jewel.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services attended a blaze on Heriot Bridge following reports received at around 10.40am. Two men were taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-626566","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-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115701810647982082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626566","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=626566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}