A 38-year-old man was rescued from the top of a three-storey building in Dundee’s Hilltown as a fire ripped through the flat below.
Firefighters were called to tackle the blaze in the top-floor flat above the Sports Bar shortly after 8.30pm on Monday, after reports of a fire in a flat with people in it.
Watch manager Fraser Johnston from the Kingsway East fire station said: ”On arrival the occupant of the flat was on the roof. He was rescued from the roof and left in the hands of the ambulance.
”Crew members wearing breathing apparatus tackled and extinguished the fire, which had fully involved the top-floor flat.”
Mr Johnston said the flat had suffered ”extensive damage.” A total of 22 firefighters were involved in the rescue.
Police cordoned off the Hilltown at McDonald Street and Alexander Street.
One eyewitness said she had seen clouds of thick black smoke billowing from the top-floor flat.
Tayside Fire and Rescue and Tayside Police are carrying out an investigation into the fire, but said it was too early to confirm the cause.
