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Bethnal Green fire: One person treated for smoke inhalation Bethnal Green fire: Building evacuated as flames spread
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Fifty eight firefighters are tackling a blaze at a block of flats in Bethnal Green, east London. Residents of a block of flats in east London have been evacuated from the building because of a fire.
One person has been treated for the effects of breathing in smoke at the four-storey building on Turin Street. A man has been taken to hospital to be treated for the effects of breathing in smoke at the four-storey building on Turin Street, Bethnal Green.
London Fire Brigade said flames engulfed half of a third floor flat and have spread to the roof of the building. London Fire Brigade said 72 firefighters were tackling flames in a third floor flat which spread to the roof of the building.
Bethnal Green Road has been closed in both directions. It is unclear how the fire started. Bethnal Green Road has been closed in both directions.
It is unclear how the fire started.
On social media witnesses described how the flat had been reduced to a "shell" by the fire, with tiles sliding from the roof.
Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, Rushanara Ali, who is at the scene described residents as "anxious given what has happened in Grenfell tower".
But she said the scene was calm despite thick smoke being blown into the surrounding areas by high winds.