One hundred firefighters and twenty vehicles are busy in London to put out a fire in a 19-story social housing building.
This was announced by the firefighters of the British capital on Twitter.
The fire concerns in particular the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the building, in the Poplar district, in east London.
Several ambulances, including from the London Ambulance Service HART, paramedics specialized in interventions in dangerous conditions, intervened on the spot, in Fairmont Avenue. On Twitter, the London ambulance service explains that some people have been rescued and that the vehicles remain near the building on fire to work together with the other emergency services. The first alarm calls came to the fire brigade just before 9 am local time. Several images of the fire circulate on social media, which produced a column of smoke visible from various parts of the city.
