Greater than 100 society had been Friday compelled to evacuate a luxurious London lodge, a favorite famous person hang-out that was once as soon as a fireplace station, when a Valentine’s Hour blaze unpriviledged out, firefighters stated.
The London Hearth Brigade stated on X that they had about “20 fire engines and around 125 firefighters at the scene of the #Marylebone hotel fire” later it first erupted previous within the afternoon.
The blaze was once within the ducts of the five-star, four-storey lodge referred to as the Chiltern Firehouse, however “the cause of the fire is not known at this stage”, the fireplace brigade stated.
The Chiltern Firehouse is common with A-listers and was once the venue for pop superstar Kylie Minogue’s fiftieth celebration in 2018, the Press Affiliation information company stated.
“There is a fire in the ducting which leads from the ground floor to the roof of the four-storey hotel with a restaurant on the ground floor,” the Hearth Brigade stated, including about 100 society had already left the construction earlier than the firefighters arrived.
The Chiltern Firehouse, which dates again to 1889 was once one in every of London’s first purpose-built hearth stations, earlier than being nearest renovated and restored by way of American businessman and hotelier Andre Balazs.
AFP
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