Four fire engines and 20 firefighters are currently attending a fire at a block of flats on Southgate Road in Kingsland, N1.
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 1052. The cause of the fire is not known at this stage.
