Restaurant Hit By
Third Blaze In Ten Years

 

A fire broke out in a Scottish city centre Indian restaurant recently for the third time in ten years reports The Scotsman.

The blaze at the Omar Khayyam restaurant in Grosvenor Street, Haymarket, started in the extraction system.

Fire crews were called to the scene at 11.40am, and managed to extinguish flames before it spread any further. Three fire crews left the scene at 1.30pm.

It follows a fire in May, 2003 which started in the restaurant's ventilation system.

A blaze raged through the restaurant ten years ago. It started in the basement kitchen and swept through the dining area. All five floors were damaged.

Alison Adamson-Ross, of kiltmakers Mcpherson Scotland in Grosvener Street witnessed the fire. She said: "The memories came flooding back of the really bad fire they had, and I thought 'not again'."