Grenfell Tower fire: What we know so far as fire rages through London tower block
Huge high rise blaze leaves residents trapped inside
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Your support makes all the difference.Firefighters are tackling a huge blaze that has engulfed a block of flats in west London.
Here's what we know so far:
- London Fire Brigade was first called at 12.54am on Wednesday morning to the Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road.
- The building in north Kensington is at least 24 stories high.
- Forty engines containing more than 200 firefighters attended the scene.
- Thirty people were taken to five hospitals following the fire.
- Fire crews from north Kensington, Kensington, Hammersmith and Paddington and surrounding stations were at the scene with the fire burning from the second to the top floor.
- The cause of the fire is not yet clear.
- London mayor Sadiq Khan has said the fire has been declared a “major incident”.
- The Grenfell Tower was built in 1974 and contains 120 homes, according to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
- More than 20 ambulance crews were sent to the scene, London Ambulance Service said.
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