FIRE crews rushed to battle a blaze at a high-rise block of flats in Glasgow early on Saturday morning.

The alarm was raised around 5.50am after a fire broke out in a flat in the 24-storey Cheviot Court building in the Knightswood area.

1 The fire started this morning Credit: Google Maps

Emergency services, including police and an ambulance were called to the scene.

Scottish Fire and Rescue confirmed that one man, 27, was treated for concussion at the scene. He didn’t require hospital treatment.

The building was partially evacuated. Around 15 tenants were asked to leave for just over an hour.

A spokesperson for Glasgow Housing Association, who own the property, said the building has external wall insulation made of non-combustible material.

Every home has a hard-wired smoke alarm.

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A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: "Police and Fire Service called to a small fire contained within a flat on the 10th floor of Cheviot Court, Kirkton Ave, Knightswood, Glasgow, around 5.50am this morning.

"The fire was extinguished by the fire service and the male householder, aged 27, was not injured.

"Enquiries into the fire are continuing."

Worried locals took to social media to thank the emergency services for their help.

Dan Jak Tweeted: "Thank you to the emergency services for their fast and calm approach to this mornings towerblock fire in Knightswood, Glasgow."

We told you earlier it was claimed how flats in Scotland’s biggest city are “tinder boxes” ready to ignite.

Housing chiefs and the Scottish Government were accused of fire safety complacency in the wake of the Grenfell Tower horror.

The Glasgow Homeowners’ Campaign said it raised concerns over external covering after Thomas Smith, 61, perished in the city’s Gorbals in 2009.

Kind-hearted Scots flooded a Glasgow removals company with donations for those affected by the devastating Grenfell Tower block blaze.

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