Oxgangs caravan fire started ‘deliberately’ as police follow ‘positive line of inquiry’
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Firefighters were called to the blaze in Firrhill Drive just after 1:25am on Sunday, November 29 - about 20 minutes after they were sent to fight another fire inside a block of flats in the same street.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson confirmed that no one was hurt as a result of either fire last night.
The fires are not thought to be linked.
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Hide AdBut this afternoon a Police Scotland spokesperson said: "We were made aware of a fire at a caravan on Firrhill Drive in Edinburgh shortly after 1.10am on Sunday, 29 November.
"It was extinguished safely by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
"The fire is believed to have been started deliberately and officers are following a positive line of enquiry."
A single fire engine was required to put out last night’s caravan fire, which was about 20 houses away from the location of the earlier flat fire which was also extinguished quickly.
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Hide AdPictures of the damaged caravan have been shared online and a number of local residents have told the Edinburgh Evening News they are “shocked” by the incidents.
There have been a number of fires reported in the Oxgangs area in recent weeks.
Last night’s drama comes two weeks after 28-year-old woman, Rosie Atkins, died in a flat fire in Oxgangs Park.
A 40-year-old man was also taken to hospital after this incident, which police are not treating it as suspicious.