Emergency services respond to a fire at a historic building on Edinburgh’s Princes Street, the former Debenhams store. The Daily Mail reports firefighters are called to the scene at about 2:52am, while the Evening Standard says services are alerted shortly before 3am on Thursday. Multiple outlets describe the building as gutted by the blaze, indicating significant damage. Fire crews close off Princes Street as they tackle the fire, and additional sources note that crews remain on the main thoroughfare for some time after the building is damaged. The accounts emphasize the timing of the incident in the early morning hours and the deployment of emergency services to control the fire and manage the area around the scene. No cause of the fire or details about injuries are provided in the supplied summaries. The story focuses on the scale of the damage to the historic structure and the disruption to Princes Street during the response and subsequent firefighting operations.