FIRE crews attended a blaze at a seven-storey building near the bottom of Buchanan Street in Glasgow.
Around 10am, reports were made on social media of smoke emerging from a building near St Enoch's shopping centre.
Footage on Twitter/X later showed fire emerging from the back of the 10 Buchanan Street building, which hosts a Zara store and residential flats.
Seven appliances were mobilised to the site, where firefighters worked to extinguish a fire on the building's second floor.
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One eyewitness told our sister paper, the Glasgow Times: "I got off the bus at Buchanan bus station and I could smell the smoke.
"In the next minute, there was fire engines coming in all directions responding, so I was like, there is a fire somewhere.
"You smell the smoke literally everywhere. You knew there was a fire."
The eyewitness said a firefighter had told him that the fire had started with a bin in the building.
Other witnesses told The National that the fire was emerging from the flats near the back of the building.
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Fire crews were winding up their equipment around 11:10am.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: "We were alerted at 9.40am on Thursday, 27 June to reports of a fire within a seven-storey building in Glasgow.
"Operations Control mobilised seven appliances to the city's Buchanan Street, where firefighters were met by a fire within the building's second floor.
"The fire has now been extinguished and three appliances currently remain on scene with crews working to make the area safe.
"There are no reported casualties."
