Fatal fire in Clarkston

Fire Crews from Clarkston and Castlemilk Community Fire Stations were mobilised at 10:45 pm tonight to a reported dwelling house fire in the Clarkston area of East Renfrewshire.

On arrival at the scene firefighters, wearing breathing apparatus, were immediately tasked to tackle the well developed fire and carry out a search of the affected premises by the Incident Commander.

Having extinguished the fire the crews located an elderly female who had tragically perished within the second storey flat of the tenament property.

The cause of the fire is currently being investigated jointly by Strathclyde Fire & Rescue's Incident Research and Investigation Team and Strathclyde Police.

There is no further information available at this time.