Glasgow families left crying and devastated after everything they own goes up in flames in Pollokshields blaze
Some 15 families were left homeless after a huge blaze broke out at a tenement flat in McCulloch Street with big hearted locals coming to their aid.
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Flames ripped through the block of flats in the south side of the city
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