Mum-to-be rescued from block blaze

A PREGNANT woman has been rescued and two other people were forced to leap from the second floor after a blaze engulfed a block of flats in the early hours of this morning.

Fire crews raced to Murrayburn Green in Wester Hailes after the fire broke out in a second-floor flat of the block at 2am.

Control centre personnel urged the couple, aged 19 and 23, to wait until crews arrived, but they were forced to leap from a rear window due to the ferocity of the blaze, fracturing bones. Smoke from the fire then spread to the top floor of the block, trapping the 24-year-old pregnant woman inside.

She was later treated for smoke inhalation.