The Latest Breaking News from the London Fire Brigade

The cause of the fire is not known

A resident on the ninth floor heard a loud noise and called the London Fire Brigade

There have been more than 2,000 objections to the development in Edgware

The capital’s firefighters hope the new approach can save them valuable time, as the vast majority of automatic alarms are not genuine fires

Footage of the fire shows flames stretching across several floors of the building, creating huge clouds of smoke

E-bike and e-scooters are causing fires every two days, according to the London Fire Brigade

Parliament told one such fire is happening in the capital every two days

Four fire engines and 25 firefighters battled the blaze on Friday morning

It is difficult to overstate the string of colossal failures that contributed to the deaths of 72 people, when a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower on June 14, 2017. The final report from the inquiry concluded that the fire “was the culmination of decades of failure”, with the finger of blame…

Seven years after the fire in Grenfell Tower took 72 lives, the final report into the causes of the tragedy has been published. The inquiry’s findings place damning blame on companies, the government, bodies responsible for building regulation and emergency services. It concludes the victims were “badly failed” by those…

‘Unscrupulous’ companies, ‘dishonesty and greed’ and regulatory failure are at fault.