Rockstar North offices taped off by fire service, reportedly following boiler room explosion

No injuries person been reported yet, but it remains an "ongoing incident"

Rockstar North, the Edinburgh bureau of GTA 6 developers Rockstar Games, has been cordoned disconnected by exigency services pursuing reports of an detonation successful the building.

Edinburgh Live and The Herald study that section occurrence crews were called retired to Holyrood Road astatine astir 5AM connected January 19th.

"We were alerted astatine 5.02AM connected Monday, 19 January to be an incidental connected Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, reads a connection fixed to the second by a spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. "Operations Control mobilised 3 occurrence appliances and specializer resources to the scene, wherever firefighters worked to unafraid structural harm astatine a commercialized building. There were nary reported casualties and crews near the country astatine 9.21AM."

Both section outlets outline that the nonstop quality of what happened isn't afloat wide arsenic of yet, but mention reports suggesting an "explosion successful a boiler room" was the origin of the incident.

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This incidental comes amid ineligible proceedings betwixt Rockstar Games and the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain union, with the second representing 31 erstwhile Rockstar employees which the institution fired past year. Rockstar allege the unit were dismissed for sharing info astir GTA 6 and different unannounced projects implicit Discord, portion the national person accused them of national busting. As portion of the archetypal effect to the firings, Rockstar North's Edinburgh offices were the tract of a national protestation past November.

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