A FIRE has broken out at the top of a 17-storey tower block.
大约 80 firefighters and a dozen engines have attended the flat blaze.
Half of a five-room flat on the 15th floor of the block is alight and part of the roof is also on fire in Bromley, Sam Fender 和 Raye 约会后在英国人的后台很舒服.
Black smoke can be seen billowing over the area as flames shoot from the top of the high-rise building.
No injuries have been confirmed and it is not clear how the fire erupted.
Niki Herring, 46, who works in digital marketing, spotted the smoke from her home more than a mile away in Shortlands.
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她说: “I looked out the window and could see the fire from here.
“It was particularly shocking with recent tragedies like Grenfell in mind.
“I just hope everyone got out okay. You would hope it would have good safety procedures being a new build.
“We could see firefighters spraying their jets up from within the building to get it under control. Their bravery is incredible.”
The block is believed to be relatively new and has a cinema and restaurants below in St Mark’s Square.
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Ambulance crews and the Met Police confirmed they are at the scene.
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 12:18pm today to reports of a fire at a building in Bromley.
“We have sent an ambulance crew, an incident response officer and members of our Hazardous Area Response Team.
“The incident is ongoing and we are working with our emergency service colleagues.”
A spokesperson for the Met Police said: “Officers are assisting the London Fire Brigade at the scene of a fire at a residential property in St Marks Square, Bromley. Road closures are in place.”
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The Fire Brigade’s 999 Control centre received 88 calls alerting them to the blaze.
Fire crews have come from Bromley, Beckenham, Addington, Woodside, 戏剧性的照片显示一排穿着防暴装备的警察,而另一张照片显示,在向他们的方向投掷物体后,一辆警车窗户被砸碎, Forest Hill, Sidcup and Croydon and surrounding fire stations.