{"id":402318,"date":"2025-09-06T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402318\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:41:14","slug":"fire-breaks-out-at-bbcs-former-television-centre-hq-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/402318\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Breaks Out At BBC&#8217;s Former Television Centre HQ In London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFifteen fire engines and about 100 firefighters were called to a blaze at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>\u2019s former Television Centre headquarters in West London\u2019s White City overnight on Saturday. The London Fire Brigade said it was alerted at about 3:00AM UK time, and mobilized crews from the surrounding area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA later update reported that the mixed-use nine-storey building was mostly being affected at its top floors. As of 8:00AM local, a restaurant, external decking and ducting remained alight. A number of flats were also potentially affected by the fire whose cause remains unknown. As of this writing, there have been no reports of casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLocated in Wood Lane, the building was the BBC\u2019s Television Centre HQ until 2013. Wood Lane is closed to traffic, and people are advised to avoid the area as \u201cthe incident will remain ongoing for some time, with crews expected on scene throughout the day,\u201d the Fire Brigade said in a briefing posted to its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt is working alongside multi-agency partners, including the Metropolitan Police, to evacuate buildings in the area as a precaution. A rest center has been set up for evacuees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Brigade said it was called at 3:08AM local with crews from Hammersmith, North Kensington, Kensington, Chiswick and surrounding fire stations mobilized to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTwo 32-meter turntable ladders are also on site, deployed as water towers to help extinguish the fire from height. The Brigade\u2019s drone team is in attendance, as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHere are some status updates from the London Fire Brigade:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fifteen fire engines and around 100 firefighters have been called to a fire involving a mixed-use building on Wood Lane in White City.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re asking people to avoid the area as this incident will remain ongoing for some time.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SZ8pcjzBrT\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SZ8pcjzBrT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 London Fire Brigade (@LondonFire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonFire\/status\/1964169796045422743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen fire engines and about 100 firefighters were called to a blaze at the BBC\u2019s former Television Centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[192,748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-402318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115156699706576961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402318","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=402318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}