A second London tower block has been caught in a raging inferno just hours after a house fire sparked a major evacuation in a set of Dagenham flats.
Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters are currently tackling a flat fire in a high rise building on Biscayne Avenue in Blackwall, east London.
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) say half of a flat and balcony on the 25th floor of the 45-storey building is alight.
Footage shows thick black smoke has been seen pouring out of the building, as locals have been advised to keep windows and doors closed.
The fire service was first called at 1.28pm and have taken over 100 calls about the blaze.
Crews from Millwall, Plaistow, Shadwell and surrounding fire stations are in attendance at the scene. The cause of the fire is not known at this time.
This inferno comes less than 24 hours after a huge blaze engulfed a tower block in Dagenham, east London, which saw more than 100 people evacuated and two people taken to hospital.
A spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade said: ‘Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters are tackling a flat fire in a high rise building on Biscayne Avenue in Blackwall.
‘Half of a flat and balcony on the 25th floor of the 45-storey building is alight.
‘The fire is producing a large amount of smoke. Those in the local area are advised to keep windows and doors closed and avoid Biscayne Avenue if possible.
‘The Brigade’s 999 Control Officers have taken over 100 calls to the blaze. The Brigade was first called at 1328. Crews from Millwall, Plaistow, Shadwell and surrounding fire stations are in attendance at the scene.
‘The cause of the fire is not known at this time.’
A local resident said he heard an alarm going off at around At 1:25pm this afternoon.
They added: ‘Around 1:25pm an alarm rang out when I noticed smoke billowing from the apartment.
‘Debris and pieces had fallen from the balcony, glass shattered and caused the fire to expand and engulfed the space, with flames reaching out as the wind carried the smoke.
‘The fire brigade arrived 20 minutes later and were tackling it from the adjacent apartment around 1:52pm.’
The fire service was also called at 2.44am this morning to tackle another multi-storey building fire on Freshwater Road in Dagenham.
LFB crew members said parts of the scaffolding surrounding the building, as well as the ground floor and the roof, were alight.
The fire service said 45 engines and around 225 firefighters responded to the blaze that engulfed the whole building. Four people were treated at the scene.
All of the building’s occupants have now been accounted for, the fire brigade said.
The property was undergoing ‘remedial’ work to remove and replace ‘non-compliant cladding’ on the fifth and sixth floors containing flats, according to a planning application document.
An investigation into the fire has begun, during which questions around the role of cladding will ‘form part’ of the probe, the LFB’s Assistant Commissioner Patrick Goulbourne said.