A LARGE FIRE SWEPT THROUGH the top four floors of a 15-story apartment building in Kingston, England, Monday evening. Later that same night, a 32-yr.-old woman was taken into custody and has been remanded to a psychiatric facility for evaluation. Police are not yet saying why they have connected her with the fire.
Surrey Comet
The fire started just before 5 pm and required the efforts of more than 100 firefighters for 4 hours to bring it under control. The building is a public housing project and is owned by the municipality. A total of 60 units are made uninhabitable by the blaze. The housing project is infamous as being the location for tv cop shows that need a seedy, run-down dump for a location scene.
ITN filed this dramatic video report from the scene:
The Daily Mail has the story and more photos HERE.
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- Downtown Fire in London – March 11, 2010
- Talk About a Delayed Response! – July 8, 2010
- Major-Alarm Worker at Boston High Rise – April 7, 2010
- Early-Morning Fire Chases 300 in London – November 26, 2009
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