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.

Yes gone, and the whole structure behind it down Union Street. This is from the Herald from about an hour ago, you can see the dome is missing:

https://x.com/heraldscotland/status/2030771157230579788

It looks catastrophic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cde4p01g0r1t

For the curious non-Glasgwegians, here's an image of the building:

This is the glass done on the corner of Gordon Street right before it collapsed.

Im in Essex Wow what a shame

It could be much longer if the buildings are unsafe. The fire at the station hotel in Ayr a few years ago stopped all services for 2 months and it was nearly a year before full schedule resumed

Wow! How do you tackle that?!

I can't see how this isn't going to reach the station. So sad this is happening. It's a horrible area of town but the buildings were beautiful. I remember my college lecturer always telling us to look up in Glasgow as that's where you saw the real beauty of the city.

This is awful! Just terrible to see.

Oh my goodness I’ve just seen this on the news. We were in Glasgow earlier and saw a bit of smoke coming from a shop, it didn’t look serious. We heard a little bang a few minutes later but never realised it was the same shop.

It looks like the Blitz.

So sad when old buildings get destroyed.

News saying the station itself not damaged, fingers crossed

I can’t see how this is not going to reach the station either.

Nope closed till at least end if the day. I’ll need to work from home as I have no other travel options and I think it’ll need assessed as the station sit directly behind the burning buildings.

The poor businesses in that building is what I’m thinking about. People who will be let go from jobs that aren’t there anymore. As well as the station closure and the extra costs it will put on people who will have to pay for alternative ways to get to work that they can’t afford. The fire is going to affect people so much more than the loss of the building

This!

i'm still a bit shocked that lithium batteries can cause this level of fire though. I had hoped that a vape shop would have better systems in place, but I suppose I can't think what they are

Thank you to the people who replied explaining. I really hope it's under control soon. I also thought of the arts school fire which was the last time I was up that way - a very long time ago but it's stuck in my mind because it was so awful.

editing for clarity, that fire happened after I'd left the area on the train.

My husband is on a Rangers forum and a guy said he watched his team get beaten, went for a subway sandwich and got evacuated from the shop and managed to get one of the last running trains to London and the driver had a heart attack on the way…

The way HAs jump on tenants for having mobility scooters which arent even lithium batteries but lead acid and yet places like these vape shops are allowed to do exactly as they please.

What had the football got to do with this fire?

I know! Alston and Gordon st coffee are two places I’ve spent a lot of time in. The blue lagoon, sexy 🤮 coffee, not to mention all the buisinesses down Union st. 😥

Most recent photo I saw showed Blue Lagoon as the only thing left standing on that corner. Though whether it is still is by now ...

This was the very recently opened vape shop. Something tells me health and safety wasn’t the number one priority...

Lithium batteries cause a lot of fires on waste sites. They really aren’t good

Is the Forsyth Building not the one across the road where Greggs is on the corner?

It's the batteries that are the problem