11 people hospitalized after fire in upscale South Kensington. Half of the ground floor of the five-storey building was on fire when emergency services arrived.
Five people were rescued using ladders and around 130 residents evacuated from the building and neighboring buildings. Fifteen fire trucks and some 100 firefighters were mobilized, according to a source at the scene of the fire. The fire hit a terraced house converted into apartments in the southwest of the British capital, near the Natural History Museum in London.