Photos from the Shoreditch fire
BBC News report here. The fire seems to be out, and while there are still lots of people making the area safe, there’s only a few people using hosepipes on the building at the moment.
It’s quite interesting to see everything being co-ordinated – fire, police, ambulance, water board, gas board, Hackney council and the assessors all there, knowing what they’re doing and with a command centre set up to handle it all.
It seems the fire started in the Prophet, a restaurant in buildings on the corner of Tabernacle Street and Worship Street. It’s near the office, so I wandered down (fearless citizen journalist that I am!) to take a couple of pictures. The smoke doesn’t seem to be going upwards so much as along Worship Street, but it’s really quite dense; you couldn’t see the platform the firefighters were using when the smoke blew in front of it.
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