Kim Cessford, Courier - 13.02.12 - FOR FILE - pictured is the Rescue wording on the side of a Fire Brigade appliance at the recent fire in Brechin
Four members of a family have been taken to hospital suffering from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning after a chimney fire at their home.
Firefighters were called to property at Law View in Preston, Duns, at around 17.50pm on Wednesday. There, they found that the blockage in the chimney which had led to the blaze was also causing toxic carbon monoxide fumes to come into the house.
All four people living in the property were taken by ambulance to the Borders General Hospital, suffering from the possible effects of poisoning from the gas, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said.
The people involved are believed to be a man, a woman and their two children.
Meanwhile, two people were taken to hospital as a precaution following a kitchen fire at a flat in Edinburgh. The blaze broke out shortly before 10pm last night at the second floor property in Wardlaw Terrace.
The two, a male and a female, managed to get out of the property themselves before firefighters arrived to extinguish the blaze. The pair were taken by ambulance to the city’s Royal Infirmary as a precautionary measure, the fire service said.
