Overview

• London Fire Brigade mobilised about 70 firefighters and ten engines after receiving roughly 25 calls from 9:41 am reporting flames in a rear storage area.
• Crews concentrated on a storage unit behind Electric Avenue shops, deploying a 32-metre turntable ladder as an observation tower to guide containment efforts.
• Officials urged residents to keep windows and doors closed and to avoid cordoned sections as thick smoke drifted across the neighbourhood.
• Metropolitan Police enforced street closures while Transport for London ran Stockwell station on exit-only operations and accepted Tube tickets on local buses.
• The blaze is largely under control with hotspots secured, and a formal investigation into the fire’s cause will begin once the scene is fully cleared.