goad at freshwater road in dagenham. good afternoon to you _ at freshwater road in dagenham.ood afternoon to you all. _ at freshwater road in dagenham. good afternoon to you all. i'm _ at freshwater road in dagenham. good afternoon to you all. i'm the inspector— afternoon to you all. i'm the inspector for this area.- afternoon to you all. i'm the inspector for this area. this is still an ongoing _ inspector for this area. this is still an ongoing operation. - inspector for this area. this is still an ongoing operation. i i inspector for this area. this is l still an ongoing operation. i will read a statement. i will be able to take three or four questions afterwards, but then i will need to get back to the operation. following this morning's statement i would like to provide you with an update to the fire at freshwater road in dagenham. firefighters with our partners have been working arduously through the night to bring the fire under control and i can confirm we have now stood down the major incident. i want to place on record our thanks to the officers and crews who place

is closed _ doors closed and freshwater road is closed to _ doors closed and freshwater road isic. we are asking people to — closed to traffic. we are asking people to avoid the area where possible — people to avoid the area where possible. because of the and pleasant is unknown but a full and thorough — pleasant is unknown but a full and thorough investigation and cause will take — thorough investigation and cause will take place in due course. we will take place in due course. we will provide with further updates as the incident progresses. that will provide with further updates as the incident progresses.— the incident progresses. that was the incident progresses. that was the assistant _ the incident progresses. that was the assistant commissioner - the incident progresses. that was - the assistant commissioner speaking in the last hour, the latest update, the smoke he mentioned is still billowing out of the top of the building, a huge amount of smoke. in terms of the fire we do not know whether it has been completely contained or not but still trying to contained or not but

called at 02aa this morning, to a fire at a mixed use residential and commercial building on freshwater roadgenham. the whole of the building has been affected by fire, including scaffolding surrounding the property and the roof. the first london fire brigade crews arrived within five minutes and a second crew arrived within six. an aerial appliance was also ordered and arrived within six minutes. in total, a0 fire engines and around 225 firefighters are at the scene. to allow us to focus on the incident, we have declared a major incident. the building has a number of fire safety issues known to the london fire brigade. a full simultaneous evacuation of the building was immediately carried out, with a significant search and rescue operation, which is still underway at this stage. two people have been taken to hospital by the london ambulance service. the london fire brigade control officers have taken 16 calls to this fire, including successfully giving vital fire survival guidance to a number of people using our fire survival guidance app, which allows information to be exchanged between ou

the london fire brigade said it was called to freshwater road at quarter to three.s is there for us now. simon, what can you tell us? well, this is clearly a major incident involving a major response from the emergency services. and it is still very much ongoing this morning. if we take a look at the top of that building, we can see smoke billowing from it. in the past few minutes i have seen lots of flames coming from the building as well. the fire service tell us that pretty much all parts of the building have caught fire. we had the ground floor being affected, the scaffolding being affected, the roof, and parts of levels one to six of the building. now we understand that around 100 people overnight have been evacuated. we are not clear at the moment whether anyone has been injured. there are a lot of ambulances around here. i can see about six ambulances. but it doesn't appear, the good news at the moment, that they are particularly busy at this time, but i understand they may have treated people earlier for the effects of breathing in smoke. this building was u

scandal groups around the country living in these, these dangerous buildings that that building in freshwater roadeen looking at today is going to be a skeleton. it will be like grenfell from what i can see, the fire is still going after 14 hours. and that's really very frightening. >> what do we do about this? >> what do we do about this? >> because i mean this apartment block specifically had been earmarked as being a danger, as being a very present and real dangen being a very present and real danger. it was on a huge list of other apartments as well, you know, and yet nobody ever seems to take responsibility. how on earth could it be the situation that all these years on an apartment block is identified? it's earmarked? we know there's a problem, and yet, seemingly the work is happening at a snail's pace. emma dent coad what do we do about this? and who's responsible ? who's responsible? >> well, and the government has acted at snail's pace. you know, i met in my brief time in parliament, i met five different secretaries of state and countless housing ministers. they really didn't take it seri

freshwater road in dagenham, east london. >> more than 100 people have been evacuated from the building, as well as the ground floor and the roof, are all on fire. >> station commander alan bendall, who is at the scene , bendall, who is at the scene, said the fire is producing heavy smoke. we are advising residents to keep windows and doors closed on that one, so that is the latest situation there. we'll bnng latest situation there. we'll bring you more on that as we get it right . it right. >> let's take a look at the latest sports news now with paul coyte. >> and we're going to talk about, a famous historic jersey. yes >> so this is a sports auction. i love a sports auction. oh yeah, yes i do. yes. this is a good one, babe ruth, the greatest baseball player, arguably of all time. yes. i learned about him when i was working at the baseball, during the summer, i spent a lot of time looking at the history of baseball. 1932, the world series. babe ruth, known as the great, the great babe ruth. there was a famous moment where he was standing at bat like this, and he was ready to go. and th