we can speak with tim downie, also watching the blaze, who is on the phone.from when we we re watched it from 2am, from when we were first alerted to the sheer volume of sirens going off and the helicopters that were here, and i have just seen the fire absolutely rip through it and just engulfed the whole building. now it is pretty much burnt out, the entire thing. i mean, i have never seen anything like that in all of the years i have lived here. just the scale of it is pretty extraordinary. we are just seeing at the moment the weather camera shot which shows the plume of smoke across camera shot which shows the plume of smoke across west camera shot which shows the plume of smoke across west london. are you getting any indications of whether there are people inside, how many people might be inside? nine none whatsoever. i have heard there are people still trapped inside.

we can speak with tim downie, also watching the blaze, who is on the phone.t have you seen, what have you heard? i have pretty much watched it from 2am, from when we we re watched it from 2am, from when we were first alerted to the sheer volume of sirens going off and the helicopters that were here, and i have just seen the fire absolutely rip through it and just engulfed the whole building. now it is pretty much burnt out, the entire thing. i mean, i have never seen anything like that in all of the years i have lived here. just the scale of it is pretty extraordinary. we are just seeing at the moment the weather camera shot which shows the plume of smoke across camera shot which shows the plume of smoke across west camera shot which shows the plume of smoke across west london. are you getting any indications of whether there are people inside, how many people might be inside? nine none whatsoever. i have heard there are people still trapped inside. from very early on, i heard people shouting from very high up. ijust desperately hope these people managed to g

we can talk to tim downie who lives very close to the area.n, which has been closed in both directions, metropolitan police have told us. tim, you've been observing what's been happening pretty much from two o'clock this morning, shortly after it was first reported. yes, from about two. we we re reported. yes, from about two. we were woken up by the sheer sound of fire engines and helicopters, shouting and screaming from people in the street — what on earth is going on? and to look out, pretty much where the tower is, the end of our road, and to see one whole side just up in flames from what i could see, from the ground to the very, very top — just a horrific sight, and something you do not expect to see. yeah, just the smell, the smoke, and when the wind changed, the sounds of people just screaming and shouting, just trying to get out. we are very mindful that people are tuning in this morning into bbc news and hearing this for the first time this morning. there are obviously some very devastating and distressing scenes that you've witnessed,

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