All news on the topic: Fire

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Twelve e-bike fire survivors sue London landlords and the battery manufacturer
Legal action follows fire that killed a man in overcrowded Shadwell flat, believed to be the first case of its kind involving e-bikes.
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Child and three adults in hospital after fire tears through home after ‘explosion’
A child and three adults are in hospital after a “large-scale” fire on a housing estate in Newcastle.
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Woman heard partner scream ‘save me’ after battery exploded in his face
A woman who had to drag her partner out of a fire in their home after a lithium battery says the couple have ‘lost everything’.
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London has narrowly avoided "other deadly Grenfell tragedies" on multiple occasions, the fire chief told LBC
London has come close to suffering another Grenfell tragedy several times since 2017, the capital’s top firefighter has told LBC.
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Woman has been found guilty of manslaughter for the deaths of her two sets of twins in a house fire
The boys were locked inside the property before the blaze broke out in December 2021 - with police saying the flames spread quickly because of the amount of rubbish strewn across the floor.
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Over 100,000 homes are still in buildings with dangerous cladding, seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire
More than 100,000 homes still have unsafe cladding that has yet to have work started on seven years after the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze killed 72 people, official stats show
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London commuters face hours of disruption after fire damages power cables
A fire near train tracks in south London has brought journeys to a standstill, with heavy disruption set to last all day.
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Tributes to ‘beautiful’ girl, 6, killed in house fire after teenager is arrested
Tributes have poured in after a six-year-old girl was killed in a catastrophic house fire.
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Intense fire breaks out in London tower block on day of Grenfell report
A 12-storey tower block caught fire in London just after a report into Grenfell was released.
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The Grenfell Tower fire was the result of "decades of failure," with an inquiry uncovering "systematic dishonesty"
In its final report, the Grenfell Tower inquiry has laid bare how Government complacency and industry dishonesty and greed led to the 2017 tragedy that claimed 72 lives
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Huge explosion near O2 Arena ‘staged by child abuser for naked film shoot’
An explosion near the O2 Arena which sparked bomb fears was staged by a convicted child abuser for a bizarre film stunt, it has been claimed.
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Huge fire breaks out near the O2 after explosion filmed raging ‘out of control’
A huge fire erupted across the river from London’s O2 Arena after a controlled blast on a film set raged ‘out of control’.
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Two men charged with murder over Bradford house fire that killed four
Mohammed Shabir and Calum Sunderland to appear in court after death of mother and three children
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Dagenham fire: Residents flee tower block inferno with ’Grenfell-style’ cladding
A planning application from 2023 shows the building in Dagenham, East London, was covered in “non-compliant” cladding and campaigners have demanded to know how such a fire could happen more than seven years Grenfell
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Blackwall fire: 70 firefighters tackle blaze as black smoke billows from block of flats
The LFB reposted an alarming video of black smoke billowing out of a 43-storey tower block at New Providence Wharf, a residential and commercial development area in Blackwall
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A major incident has been declared following a massive fire that ripped through a tower block in east London
A ‘significant’ search and rescue operation is underway after a fire broke out in a bloke of flats in east London.
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Bradford house fire: Two arrested on suspicion of murder after blaze claims lives of a mother and her three children
Bryonie Gawith, 29, and her children Denisty, nine, Oscar, five, and Aubree Birtle, 22 months, all died after their home was set alight with West Yorkshire Police since making a series of arrests
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Huge fire erupts at block of flats in south-east London
A block of flats has caught on fire in south-east London with 70 firefighters called to put out the blaze.
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Over 20 injured in Ferris wheel fire at music festival in Germany
A Ferris wheel at a music festival in Germany has caught fire, leaving around 30 people injured.
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Dozens of firefighters combat blaze at Somerset House
There are around 100 firefighters at the scene of a fire in London’s famous Somerset House.
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Public urged to stay away as fire spreads across two floors of south London flats
A block of flats has caught fire in south London with flames and smoke seen rising from apartments.
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Huge gas cylinder fire shuts major rail line in and out of London
A huge fire involving a gas cylinder has shut down a major train line between Suffolk and London.
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Newham fire: Three children killed in a tragic flat fire named as parents give heartbreaking tribute
Nakash Malik, 13, 11-year-old girl Aayat Malik and seven-year-old boy Muhammad Hanan Malik died in the fire at a property in Newham, east London, the Metropolitan Police said
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Mum and dad killed and two children ‘very poorly’ in hospital after house fire
A man and a woman have been killed and two children are in hospital after a fire ripped through a house in Blackpool.