Published by Robert L Senior Reporter on Saturday 15th February 2025, at 10:00hrs
25 fire engines and around 125 firefighters tackled the fire that started in the ducting
Firefighters spent the evening damping down a fire that ripped through a luxury hotel in Marylebone, London on Valentines Day.
The fire that is believed to have started in the ducting spread across the upper floors of the three story historic building shortly before 3pm.
Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters have been tackling the fire at the Chiltern Firehouse hotel on Chiltern Street.
The Brigade’s 999 Control room officers were first called at 14:52 and deployed fire crews from Euston, Soho, Paddington, West Hampstead, Kensington, Chelsea, and surrounding fire stations.
The incident was under control by 20:07.
A spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade said:
“Crews worked hard over a number of hours in challenging circumstances in a complex historic building and successfully contained the fire to one property, preventing it from spreading to neighbouring properties.
Firefighters will remain on scene throughout the night damping down hotspots.
The fire started in ducting and spread from the ground floor to the roof of the four-storey hotel with a restaurant on the ground floor. The blaze spread to the second and third floors of the building.
Around one hundred people evacuated the building before the Brigade arrived, and no injuries have been reported.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.”
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