{"id":627441,"date":"2025-12-12T02:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/627441\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:15:53","slug":"edinburgh-grassmarket-blaze-leaves-two-men-in-hospital-after-flat-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/627441\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Grassmarket blaze leaves two men in hospital after flat fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grassmarket was closed for a time while emergency services dealt with the incident, but later reopened.<\/p>\n<p>12:30, 11 Dec 2025Updated 15:05, 11 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1_IMG_1187.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple emergency services including police, ambulance and fire crews at Grassmarket in Edinburgh\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Emergency services are at the scene(Image: Edinburgh Live\/Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Two men have been taken to hospital following a blaze at a flat in the centre of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Edinburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emergency services were called to Heriot Bridge in the city&#8217;s Old Town following reports of a fire this morning, Thursday, December 11 at around 10.30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Grassmarket was closed for a time while emergency services dealt with the incident, but later reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police Scotland said that two men were taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Officers said the blaze is not being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/scotish-fire-and-rescue-service\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Scottish Fire and Rescue Service<\/a> has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grassmarket was closed for a time while emergency services dealt with the incident, but later reopened. 12:30,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,530,712,1143,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-627441","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-police-scotland","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue-service","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115704194338197389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627441","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=627441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}