\n Police were called to Indian Aroma on Woodford Avenue in Gants Hill around 9pm last night (August 22).\n<\/p>\n
\n Officers arrived with the London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service.\n<\/p>\n
\n Five people were rescued from the restaurant and suffered from burns and smoke inhalation.\n<\/p>\n
\n They were taken to hospital by ambulance where three are in a critical condition.\n<\/p>\n
\n Nine others were able to escape the restaurant before the fire service arrived.\n<\/p>\n
\n There have been no arrests and an investigation is underway.\n<\/p>\n
\n Detective Chief Inspector Mark Rogers, of the Met\u2019s Central Specialist Crime North unit said: \u201cWe understand this incident will cause concern within the community.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy team of specialist detectives are working at speed to piece the incident together.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cLocals can expect to see a large police presence in the area.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf you have any concerns, please speak to those officers on the ground.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: “We were called at 2102 (22 August) to reports of a fire at a restaurant on Woodford Avenue in Gants Hill.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Part of the ground floor restaurant was damaged by fire. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued five people from the restaurant.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey were all taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAround nine further people were able to leave the restaurant before firefighters arrived.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The Brigade\u2019s Control Officers received seven calls about the fire and mobilised crews from Ilford, Hainault, Leytonstone and Woodford fire stations to the scene. The fire was extinguished by 2232.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The cause of the fire is being investigated by the Brigade and the Metropolitan Police Service.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \u201cWe were called at 9.04pm yesterday (22 August) to reports of a fire on Woodford Avenue, Ilford.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe sent resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, an advanced paramedic, an incident response officer and paramedics from our hazardous area response team.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London\u2019s Air Ambulance.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe treated five people for burns and smoke inhalation. We took two patients to a major trauma centre and three others to local hospitals.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Anyone with information is urged to contact the Met via 101, quoting 7559\/22AUG.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n If you wish to remain anonymous, you can speak with Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to Indian Aroma on Woodford Avenue in Gants Hill around 9pm last night (August 22).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-367715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115079184745407728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}