Four fire engines and 20 firefighters are currently attending a fire at a block of flats on Southgate Road in Dalston.
The fire is affecting a block of flats of eight floors and part of a four roomed flat on the fourth floor is alight.
Firefighters from Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel and Euston fire stations are at the scene.
The Brigade was called at 10:52am. The cause of the fire is not known at this stage.
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