{"id":780111,"date":"2026-02-21T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/780111\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:39:13","slug":"edinburgh-premises-sealed-off-as-fire-crews-respond-to-incident-on-busy-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/780111\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh premises &#8216;sealed off&#8217; as fire crews respond to incident on busy street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A premises in Edinburgh city centre has reportedly been sealed off after <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/bus-bursts-flames-edinburgh-city-194840144.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:fire crews;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire crews<\/a> were alerted to an incident. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service raced to George Street just before 7pm on Saturday, February 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two appliances were dispatched by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. An eyewitness told Edinburgh Live a <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/moment-edinburgh-motorbike-bursts-flames-100041339.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:cordon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cordon<\/a> was being erected outside a shop near the Assembly Rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters were said to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/east-lothian-police-hunt-runaway-33466976\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:responding;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">responding<\/a> to reports of a carbon monoxide alarm activating inside.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An eyewitness who saw the scene unfolding told Edinburgh Live: &#8220;I was heading down George Street in a taxi, and saw firefighters putting a cordon up outside a store and directing people around it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just not what you expect to see on a Saturday night at this time. I hope everyone is okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: &#8220;We received the initial call at 6.47pm in response to a carbon monoxide alarm going off, and dispatched two pumps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Crews have now left the scene and Scottish Gas are in attendance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Scottish Gas has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A premises in Edinburgh city centre has reportedly been sealed off after fire crews were alerted to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,45951,227682,4884,712,1143,227683,16,15],"class_list":["post-780111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-fire-crews","tag-george-street","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue-service","tag-scottish-gas","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116110555193690556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780111","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=780111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}