According to fire personnel present (in full force, with four fire engines which, apparently, is standard procedure), a small fire broke out earlier this evening in the water boiler cabinet of a top floor flat at 1 RQ. Fortunately, nobody was hurt in the incident, and the fire, which developed “a lot of smoke”, has now been put out.
As an aside obviously, we lost our Sky connection shortly after the arrival of the fire services, who say they temporarily switched off the power supply to the flat in question. Given that our Sky dish sits on top of 1 RQ and that other Sky users in our stairwell are affected too, I cannot help but think there may be a connection.
Tom
10, 2 RQ
