EYEWITNESS’ to this morning’s high-rise fire in Glasgow have told of their fears in the aftermath of the Grenfell disaster in London.

Emergency services are still in attendance outside the building on Kirkton Avenue in Knightswood after the blaze broke out just before 6am.

Resident Caroline Baldwin has lived in the building for 18 years and lives on the 12th floor.

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She told the Evening Times there have been two fires in the building over the past 18 months and spoke of her worries after 72 people died in a huge tower block fire in west London in June 2017.

She added: “We had the heads of GHA out to us the first time, after what happened in London [Grenfell], assuring everyone the buildings won’t go up.

“The cladding is different from the one in London, but really we don’t know what’s happening.

“We didn’t get the chap to tell us the lifts were back on again.

“About 7.15 this morning, there was a battered at the door with the fire guys telling me there was a fire on floor six.

“And we’re told they would come back and let us know when the lifts were back on again. I sat for ages and no-one came back, so I just took my chance and came down.

“They told me not to leave. I could walk down the stairwell but there’s no way I could have made that stairwell. I’m missing hospital appointments. The council just don’t bother.

“They’ll come and get that tidied up and re-let that again. That’s the third one [fire] in two years.”

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A family with a small baby who live on the eighth floor said: “At 6.30am, the firemen banged on our door to tell us about the fire.

“The police just told us it happened on the seventh floor.

“You can smell smoke in the lift and the corridor.

“We don’t know how long it will be safe. With what happened in London, of course we’re worried.”

A support worker for one of the residents in the building added: “The fire crews knocked on his door around 6am to let him know about the fire.

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“I think it happened on the sixth or seventh floor.

“There is a strong smell of smoke in the corridors. They’ve opened all the windows in the hall to air it.

“Other support workers are here to check on residents.

“Particularly after Grenfell, we made sure we fire safety checked his apartment.  

“There are procedures in place so they [vulnerable residents] are known to agencies in case there is an emergency.”