London’s Chiltern Firehouse has been evacuated amid a blaze on Friday afternoon. The hotel was due to host Netflix‘s well-attended BAFTA Film Awards party on Sunday night.
The London Fire Brigade said around 60 firefighters attended the Marylebone property at nearly 3pm local time. The cause of the blaze is not known at this stage.
“There is a fire in ducting which leads from the ground floor to the roof of the four storey hotel with a restaurant on the ground floor,” the London Fire Brigade said. “Around one hundred people have evacuated the building before the Brigade arrived.”
David Brown, a journalist for The Times of London, posted a video of smoke billowing out of the building, which was once a fire station.
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