Evacuation in City of London as restaurant kitchen beneath offices catch fire, causing four engines and 25 firefighters to rush to the scene to battle blaze

Enterprise women and men had been evacuated from the Metropolis of London this afternoon after a fireplace broke out in a restaurant beneath workplaces.

Dramatic photographs of the blaze confirmed plumes of smoke billowing out of the constructing situated only a stone’s throw away from the Financial institution of England on Lothbury.

Video footage confirmed these working within the capital’s famend finance district hurrying away from the fireplace as emergency companies rushed to the scene.

London Fireplace Brigade despatched 4 big engines together with 25 firefighters to cost into the constructing and calm the fireplace that broke out at round 4pm this afternoon.

The incident, which came about near St Paul’s Cathedral, is assumed to have broke out in a floor ground restaurant.

It’s unclear which restaurant the fireplace started in and which firms had been affected.  

A spokesperson for the London Fireplace Brigade mentioned: ‘4 hearth engines and round 25 firefighters are responding to a fireplace at a restaurant with workplaces above on Lothbury in Metropolis of London.

‘The bottom-floor kitchen was partially alight. The Brigade’s 999 Management Officers have taken over 10 calls to the fireplace. The Brigade was first referred to as at 3.47pm. 

‘Crews from Shoreditch, Dockhead, Shadwell and surrounding hearth stations are in attendance on the scene.’

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