Overview
- Thirty-six guests and staff left the Mabledon Court Hotel on Mabledon Place before crews arrived around 2am.
- Firefighters rescued two people from the fourth floor using escape hoods and brought down two more with a turntable ladder.
- Part of the hotel’s basement was damaged, and the fire was under control by about 3:10am.
- Crews from Soho, Islington, Kentish Town and surrounding stations responded after control took the first call at 1:59am.
- London Fire Brigade issued renewed smoking-safety advice, urging smokers to fully extinguish cigarettes and use sturdy ashtrays, with butts wetted before disposal.