Fire in Govan

Strathclyde Fire & Rescues control centre in Johnstone mobilised fire appliances from Govan, Pollok and Maryhill Community Fire Stations in response to numerous reports of a major fire in Fairley Street in Govan shortly before 8am this morning.

The appliances arrived at the scene and were confronted by an extremely well developed fire in a yard at the rear of Fairley Street. The blaze had already engulfed the single storey unoccupied building of approximately 75m x 20mm within the yard.

The fire was producing vast volumes of thick black acrid smoke which was rising hundreds of feet into the air over the south of Glasgow.

The incident Commander immediately ordered on additional supporting resources and he set his crews about tackling the fire and evacuating the residential premises of Fairley Street and Ibrox Terrace to the south of the fire.

Such was the ferocity of the blaze that residential properties also became involved in fire.

The main fire in Fairley Street was brought under control utilising a combination of ground and hand held branches as well as compressed aid foam.

The fire in the residential premises of Ibrox Terrace was extinguished by fire crews, wearing breathing apparatus, using hand controlled branches.

At the height of the incident there were about 60 fire service personnel on the incident ground. There are no reported injuries to either members of the public or emergency service personnel.

The fire service were greatly assisted by Strathclyde Police in the evacuation of the surrounding residential properties as well as traffic and cordon management.

The fire service will be in attendance for some considerable time and the cause of the fire will be determined via a joint investigation between Strathclyde Fire & Rescue and Strathclyde Police.

There is no further information available at this time.