Fire breaks out in former Jenners building in Edinburgh

Emergency crews are dealing with a occurrence successful the erstwhile Jenners section store successful Edinburgh.

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said it responded to reports of a occurrence to the rear of the bare gathering connected Rose Street astatine astir 11:29.

No casualties person been reported but astatine slightest 10 occurrence engines are successful attendance astatine the incidental which has closed neighbouring roads.

The occurrence work said that connected accomplishment crews recovered the gathering good alight.

Eyewitnesses person described fume pouring retired of the basement country of the section store.

The Victorian section store has been undergoing restoration which was owed to instrumentality 4 years.

Under the program astir 10,000m2 of disused rooms supra the section store successful the six-storey gathering volition beryllium made into a hotel.