THE DEATH TOLL FROM THE HIGH-RISE FIRE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, Friday afternoon has risen to 6. (See yesterday’s Firegeezer report HERE.) The fire brigade is crediten with making 30 rescues from the blazing 12-story apartment building with 15 of the victims needing hospitalization.
BBC News
BBC News is reporting today:
Ch Supt Wayne Chance said: “We would always treat a situation like this as suspicious because we don’t know the cause… in the first instance.”
Ch Supt Chance, of the Met Police, added: “…We are treating the scenes as a crime scene which is the reason why we can’t allow anybody to go in there. So on the basis that we don’t know how this fire started, that is why we are treating it as suspicious.”
He said the fire, which was tackled by more than 100 firefighters, had spread rapidly to the 11th floor.
The bodies of a six-year-old child and two adults were found at the scene. The three-week-old baby, a seven-year-old child, and a woman were later pronounced dead in hospital.
All of the victims came from a number of different families.
Sky News has some additional fire footage:
