A fire at a car scrapyard in Glasgow left thousands of homes without power yesterday evening.
Smoke billowing from the blaze near Ranger FC's Ibrox Stadium could be seen rising above the city from 60km away, with firefighters working into the night to bring the flames under control.
Water had to be pumped from the Clyde river to douse the flames and hoses were laid a kilometre through streets closed off by police.
Scottish Power said one of its buildings was involved in the fire and power had to be shut off to 3,000 properties in the Govan area as a precaution.
Locals were urged to unplug all their electrical equipment and switch off gas or oil central heating systems.
Police and fire crews were called to the blaze at about 4.30pm.
More than 50 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze, with 12 appliances.
Peter Heath, from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, said fire engulfed a building about 100 metres by 40 metres before spreading to a large yard at the back full of tyres.
Firefighters worked to protect an electricity sub-station supplying a "significant part of Glasgow and Govan area", he said.
Scrapyard fire in Govan seen from the Isle of Arran pic.twitter.com/b7WjSvVknG
— Struan Ferguson (@struan_89) March 5, 2017
Struan Ferguson posted a photo of the column of smoke taken from the Isle of Arran, over 60km from the blaze.
SP Energy Networks later tweeted that power had been restored after engineers altered the network from the substation.
