Glasgow Central is on Fire!

[weareallqueens]

The fire started in a vape shop, apparently but seems utterly out of control now. No trains in or out of the station. Has hit the Grand Central Hotel too.

Sad that the Egyptian Halls had lain vacant for decades with finally a potential future to preserve them.

Union St will never look the same again 😞

You're looking to much into this.

There's really not any inaccuracies on here that you need to get overly upset about.

It's a fire, the fire started in a vape shop, the building attached to the station is consumed by an uncontrollable fire. Vape shops are known for their tax avoidance and money laundering. You're reaction is over the top to some throw away comments.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8l2wx0027o

"The fire started in a vape shop on Union Street"

It’s terrible to think of how many businesses will have been destroyed in one day.

No it’s an old building in Union St adjacent to the station. My DS went for a train at 530pm & had to come home as all cancelled. I gave him a lift to the next town which is on the Glasgow Queen St line. At that point had no idea it was so bad.

I've been completely oblivious to this until I happened to go onto Instagram and saw an update from my hairdresser - his salon is in that building. I was just there yesterday. There were so many wee businesses just in his block alone, nevermind the whole building. This will be devastating to them.

Thankfully so far, no injuries.

totally. sigh. what a waste.

That is incredibly scary.

Very sad, another iconic Glasgow building potentially lost, the dome on the corner of Union and Gordon St was a real landmark for many of us.

Thoughts are with the firefighters tonight.

And so sad to see Glasgow mentioned twice on the BBC News at 10 headlines. Yet another prominent city fire and another clash of Old Firm football fans. Doesn’t do our reputation much good.

Beautiful old Victorian building, what a shame. 😢

The two teams and a large number of their supporters are a bloody embarrassment to this city. I wish that they’d also fuck off, along with the vape shops.

Are you in Glasgow? You should have an idea how many of them are dodgy.

Vape shop caused the blaze. It's now spreading to Gordon St. The dome has fallen. Central is at risk.

The damage is heartbreaking.

My boss has messaged us all about making alternative transport arrangements & to let them know asap if we can’t! I suspect it will be shut for a day or two!

Been watching it on TikTok, seems a big fire.

I'm glad that you managed to get a lift and got home safely. I agree that this is going to be massively disruptive because as well as the trains being off the streets up either side of the station which are both closed are major bus routes. The closure of George Square is already causing so much disruption with services being rerouted along roads that are now closed by the fire. They'll be running out of ways to get across the city centre by road. I'd advise anyone to avoid the city centre for the next few days at least.

I need to go to bed but it’s hard to stop watching for updates. What a terrible thing to happen.

My siblings business is in the building, they had to evacuate quickly and most importantly they are safe but their business/equipment is gone and their personal belongings which they fled without, including phone. Very sad.

You know this is a discussion forum right? We’re here to discuss.

Thank you. I feel fortunate I was travelling just as it started, there was a backlog at Motherwell which was why we were held at Carstairs but at least it was only a transpennine train from Manchester with 5 carriages. Just seen on BBC ones from London have been held and they have much more passengers and a journalist has said he’s been held at Lockerbie so trains must be backing up

Sorry to hear this x

Insurance job wait for the student flats rumours schumours

The fire will have burned extra hot and spread rapidly because of the lithium ion batteries in the vapes when they go its a nasty fire thats tricky to put out and easily spread ti the rest of the building

It really is a blow to the Glasgow skyline. I’m glad there haven’t been any casualties so far and the services are trying to hold the fire from the station itself 🤞🏻you know it’s serious when they run hoses from the Clyde for water supplies

This is so awful.

And because of a stupid bloody vape shop as well.

Wow this is unbelievable. I hadnt seen it reported until now. The street was a complete dive but the buildings were beautiful. Has the glass dome on the corner definitely fallen in?