Fire Brigade Called to Rockstar North Following Boiler Malfunction - News

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The fire brigade was called to the Rockstar North studio at 5:02 am this morning following a "malfunction in one of the heating boilers." 

There were no reported casualties and the fire crews left at 9:21 am. The studio, which is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, is now "open and operational."

A Rockstar spokesperson told GamesIndustry, "Early Monday morning, there was a malfunction in one of the heating boilers at Rockstar North.

"Many thanks to those that reached out with concern, and also to the police and fire crews who were on scene quickly to assess the situation - please know that everyone is well and our studio remains open and operational."

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Pemalite (on 19 January 2026)

How is this news? Alarms to these kinds of "events" are extremely frequent and often results in firefighters doing nothing anyway.
At most we will just check to see if there is any active flame, reset the alarm... And return back to station.

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pikashoe Pemalite (on 19 January 2026)

Apparently a boiler literally exploded.

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Pemalite pikashoe (on 19 January 2026)

That should probably have been something important to include in the article if that's the case.

But even an exploding boiler is typically outside of our scope of work/response, it becomes a contractors problem unless there are casualties or a USAR-like response.

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