Fire Breaks Out at North Haugh, Cause Not Yet Known
- Hannah Shiblaq
- Jan 14
- 1 min read
University students and staff were informed via email on 14 January, that a fire had broken out in the University’s New Technology Building on the North Haugh. A little over an hour after the original email, Vice-Principal Communications Niall Scott followed up to announce that it was “now under control.”
Scott said that “we do not yet know the cause of the fire.”
A Fire Brigade, consisting of firefighters from St Andrews, Cupar, and Tayport are currently at the scene, having been called to the site after reports of smoke issuing from the New Technology Building. They have remained around University Buildings “damping down,” Scott’s email said.
“The fire appears to have been contained to a storage area in one corner of the building, although we expect the wider premises to be considerably affected by smoke and fire,” Scott wrote.
One witness told The Courier of “a strong smell of burning plastic.”
In the fire’s aftermath, Scott clarified that “it is safe to come and go from North Haugh buildings outwith the close cordon set by the Fire Service.”
Investigations are set to begin to establish the cause.
Photo provided by the University of St Andrews
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