POLICE have confirmed one man has been taken to hospital following a fire at a high-rise in Knightswood. 

Around 5.50am this morning police received a report of a fire in Kirkton Avenue.

One man was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, there have been no reports about the man's condition. 

Police said investigations are underway to establish the cause of the fire.

GHA, the housing association who own the high-rise, said the fire was contained to the flat it started in. 

A GHA spokesperson said: “The fire service was called by our 24-hour on-site staff who were contacted by a tenant, who had heard a fire alarm and smelled smoke in a neighbouring flat.

“The fire was contained to the flat where it started and quickly put out. Since then housing staff, working with our dedicated fire-safety officers, have been knocking on every door in the block to answer tenants’ questions and provide assurance.

“They will stay on site today offering assistance and support to anyone who needs it.”

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Visible smoke damage could be seen above one of the windows on the tenth floor of the south side of the building. 

Residents told The Evening Times the fire occured on either the sixth or seventh floor and some were awoken by firecrews banging on their doors between 6 am and 7 am.

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

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.”