Emergency services have cordoned off Princes Street after a huge fire broke out at 109-111.
The building which formerly was home to Debenhams department store and later Levis, is understood to have been in the process of being transformed into a luxury Zedwell hotel.
The UNESCO protected building however was filmed and pictured engulfed in flames as a raging inferno blazed in the early hours of Thursday July 9.
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The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We received a report of a building at 109 Princes Street on fire at 2.52am.
“Seven appliances and three special units were dispatched.
“Crews remain at the scene.”
The site of the fire is just a stone’s throw away from the inferno that completely destroyed the former Jenners department store in 2023 and which tragically led to the death of 38-year-old firefighter Barry Martin.
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