Elderly woman taken to hospital after fire in Broughton Road flat

Police have confirmed that an 84-year-old woman was taken to hospital, after she was rescued from a fire in a flat on Broughton Road.
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Emergency services attended the scene on Tuesday evening, and extinguished the fire.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We received a report of a fire within a property on Broughton Road in Edinburgh around 8.20pm on Tuesday, 26 October, 2021.

“An 84-year-old woman was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment and the fire was extinguished by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.”