Overview
- King’s Hall Methodist Church in Southall was brought under control around 12:30am after about 70 firefighters and two aerial ladders tackled flames that engulfed multiple floors and the roof.
- The church’s roof and upper floors collapsed and the local authority declared the derelict building structurally unsafe, with no risk to surrounding properties and no reported injuries.
- London Fire Brigade received more than 20 calls from 9:30pm, deployed crews from several stations, advised residents to keep windows closed, and later reopened South Road once the site was made safe.
- In Birmingham, a fire in a flat at Brindley House appears to have started accidentally in a fourth-floor kitchen; two adults and a child escaped and the blaze was extinguished by about 11:00am.
- In Coventry, six engines and a hydraulic platform fought a large blaze at KM Motors, with roughly half the single-storey premises affected; crews have scaled down after damping hotspots and roads have reopened, with the cause under investigation.