In the early hours of Monday morning (2 November), the Dynamic Food and Wine store on the Whinchat Road in east London’s Thamesmead was gutted by a fire that required 60 firefighters from the London Fire Brigade to extinguish.
The fire initially broke out in the shop, before going on to destroy part of it. The cause has now been revealed by the fire service as a fault in an electrical intake box.
Five people form the flats above the store were evacuated from the premises between 2am and 3pm into Monday morning, using an internal staircase.
A further 15 residents were evacuated from nearby properties by the Met police.
Thankfully, no injuries were reported.
London Fire Brigade was called to the scene at 2.16am and crews from Plumstead, East Greenwich, Erith, Eltham, Bexley, and Lee Green attended, with the fire under control by 4.55am.
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