Four rescued from Port Glasgow block blaze

Four people had to be rescued from a tenement block in Scotland after a fire broke out in a communal area on the ground floor of the building.

Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service were called to the blaze in Port Glasgow at around 11.30pm on Tuesday (20th December). Firefighters found several people trapped inside the building by the heat and thick smoke emanating from the flames and were seen leaning out of windows desperately calling for help. Fire crews had to rescue a man and a woman from a ground-floor window as well as two women from the first floor.

All four were treated at the scene by paramedics, with two of the women later taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital after suffering from smoke inhalation.

Local police and the fire service have launched an investigation to establish the cause of the blaze.