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'We escaped Glasgow city centre inferno then watched the building crumble to the ground'

'We escaped Glasgow city centre inferno then watched the building crumble to the ground'

A couple have told how they fled the inferno in Glasgow city centre before watching the building crumble to the ground. Joe Diaz, 32, and his partner Dan Campbell, 29, own Joe Diaz Hair on the fourth floor of 111 Union Street and were inside the studio working when the fire broke out on Sunday. The hair studio, in the B-listed building that was destroyed, is located just along the corridor from the iconic dome that caved in on itself after burning for hours. The couple ran down four flights of stairs with a client to escape while the building filled with smoke. They were both working with the client when the alarm went off in the building. Dan had gone along to the conference room, which is in the dome that collapsed, to speak to his mother on the phone. It was there he noticed something was not right. Speaking to BBC Scotland News he said: "I could see a lot of smoke but I thought it just could be from the fryers in Blue Lagoon. "But then I started to see flakes of ash in the air then I heard a huge bang - that must have been the first explosion. "So I rushed back to the salon and told Joe and the client 'we need to leave now'." As the couple realised it was not a false alarm they

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