Residents are being evacuated as eight-hectare wildfire rages in east London
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Residents are evacuated as 20 firefighters and about 125 firefighters are fighting a forest fire of eight hectares in London.
Shrubland burns behind Clemence Road in Dagenham, trees, fences and garden furniture and ordered to leave their homes nearby.
The London Fire Department (LFB) advised the residents to keep their doors and windows closed due to smoke and is told to avoid the region because of the road closure.
The brigade control office received more than 75 calls at 18:30. Firefighters from Dagenham, Hornchhurch, Wennington, Romford and other vicinity at the scene.
Deploying a forest fire intervention tool and forest fire beater.
LFB now says that he has made a ‘stable progress’ in the fire and that they can carefully return to the property of the residents.
The cause of the fire is not known at this stage.
Twenty firefighters and approximately 125 firefighters are invited to a grass fire of eight hectares in London.
Shrubland burns behind the Clemence Road in Dagenham and ordered to leave their homes
Tugay’s control office took the first of the calls of more than 75 calls at 18:30 and firefighters from more than one region around him joined the scene.
The London Fire Department (LFB) advised the residents to keep their doors and windows closed due to smoke and is told to avoid the region because of the road closure
A forest fire intervention vehicle and forest fire beater was deployed
The cause of the fire is not known at this stage. Firefighters from Dagenham, Hornchhurch, Wennington, Romford and other vicinity at the scene
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