Residents on a Perth street were shaken by a “big bang” when a tumble dryer caught fire and turned a flat into an inferno. Emergency services rushed to the top-floor property on Rannoch Road just before 11pm on Wednesday with the blaze seen raging from one of the windows.Police units were also at the scene and closed the road between Campsie Road and Newhouse Road junctions while firefighters attempted to make the area safe for around three hours.
“Operations control mobilised three fire appliances and one height vehicle and firefighters extinguished a fire affecting a flat on the top floor of a three-storey tenement building. The inhabitants of all six flats were evacuated before the fire appliances arrived and nobody suffered any injuries.”Street resident Stephen Gilruth said: “To start off with there was a fire alarm going off at around about 9.35pm and it stopped for about a few minutes and it started again.
Top news stories today “[We heard] the boy shout ‘it’s poison, it’s carbon dioxide’ and then we saw it ignite and burst into flames. Then all of a sudden it was a big bang which shattered the windows.