LEYTON: Sixty residents evacuated during blaze (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

LEYTON: Sixty residents evacuated during blaze

11:55am Wednesday 1st February 2012 in News By Joe Curtis

A fire is believed to have started in a ten-storey hostel when a cigarette was left unattended.

Sixty residents were evacuated from the building in Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, when the fire started at around 5.30pm yesterday (January 31).

Flames engulfed a fourth floor flat, which was completely destroyed.

No-one was injured.

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