Monday, November 12th, 2007
Breaking news: Fire east of London

Photo: Fire east of London, by Kevin Anderson
Six fire engines to the scene east of London as huge plume of smoke billows over London.
Within minutes of the fire being reported, pictures were posted on Flickr and one blogger even posted a video. I’m following the news via Flickr and blogs through Technorati on the Guardian’s News blog.
Journalism.co.uk has a good roundup of the breaking news coverage of the fire via Twitter and blogs.
Technorati Tags: London







November 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Greetings from Washington D.C. Getting reports here that it is an industrial site. Stock futures markets moving up after intial shock. Looks ugly but, industrial chemical fires usually are. Yours was the first blog I came across that had the story. Who needs cables news? Will be watching to see how story develops. Thanks for posting
BCP
http://beercanpolitics.blogspot..com
November 12th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
It has been reported that the fire is in a bus depot and the London Fire Brigade says eight appliances and 40 firefighters are at the scene.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
It was at a warehouse in Stratford. The reports of the bus depot were not correct. It is being called ‘an industrial estate’.
The pictures on Flickr were pretty amazing. Especially the ones from Fink. He was on the 20th floor of a building in Canary Wharf:
http://finkangel.blogspot.com/2007/11/huge-plume-of-smoke-over-stratford.html
December 7th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
I am sad for the fire. I felt myself there, with Flickr’s photo.