Fire service provides update on blaze in Stewarton

Four fire appliances were sent to the scene in the town's Lainshaw Street <i>(Image: Newsquest)</i>
Four fire appliances were sent to the scene in the town's Lainshaw Street (Image: Newsquest)
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THERE were no casualties from a fire that forced the closure of a major Stewarton Road.

Lainshaw Street in the town centre was taped off by police on Friday night as fire crews battled a blaze in a ground floor flat.

Four appliances were sent to the scene just before 6.30pm on April 10, however, there were no casualties.

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: "We were alerted at 6.22pm on Friday, April 10 to a dwelling fire on Lainshaw Street in Stewarton.

"Operations control mobilised four fire appliances to the scene, where firefighters worked to extinguish a developed fire affecting a property in the ground floor of a block of flats.

 "There were no reported casualties and crews worked to make the area safe before leaving the scene at 8.32pm."

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