LONDON — A number of workplaces, museums and other buildings were still closed Thursday a day after a cable fire in central London, which resulted in a mass evacuation and widespread power outages.
London Fire Brigade said it still had firefighters and officers at the scene in Kingsway where it said a cable tunnel fire was under control but not fully extinguished.
“This has been a technically difficult incident to tackle. The reason that the fire is still burning is because the service tunnel is hard to reach and although firefighters have been applying water through access points throughout the night, the complexity of the tunnel layout means that it will be some time until the fire is fully extinguished," London Fire Brigade Assistant Commissioner Peter Cowup said in a statement Thursday morning. Read more...
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