Watch: Video shows smoke pouring from Edinburgh flat roof and billowing into sky

Video footage shows dark smoke billowing from an Edinburgh roof and blowing across a busy main road.

Approximately 15 firefighters and three appliances are currently in attendance, after the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service received reports of the fire at around 12.30pm this afternoon.

There are no reported casualties.

A witness caught live footage of the fire, as the video shows.

Firefighters taped off the scene at Leith walk (Photo: Cameron Allan).

The video, taken by Hugo Minz, shows a cloud of dark smoke pouring from the roof and blowing across the road, and appearing to originate from the roof of a flat at the top of Leith Walk.

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: "We were alerted at 12.31pm on Monday, February 1 to reports of a fire within a block of flats in Edinburgh.

"Operations Control mobilised three fire appliances to the city's Elm Row, where firefighters worked to extinguish the fire.

“Crews currently remain on the scene working to make the area safe.”

The smoke billowing across the city this afternoon (Photo: Hugo Minz, @mrhugom and @gordie__)

The cause of the fire is unknown.

The incident is being treated by the fire service as a ‘routine call.’

More to follow.

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