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  • UK NewsFire erupts in East London high-rise just hours after Dagenham blaze

    Fire erupts in East London high-rise just hours after Dagenham blaze

    A fire erupted in a building in east London, mere hours after a blaze consumed a tower block in Dagenham on Bank Holiday Monday. Footage circulating on social media platform X shows thick black smoke pouring from one of the high-rises at New Providence Wharf, near the River Thames. Flames seem to be raging inside an apartment in Charrington Tower,…

  • UK NewsMother recounts escape from fire in Dagenham flats

    Mother recounts escape from fire in Dagenham flats

    A young mother has recounted her harrowing experience attempting to escape a fire in her block of flats in Dagenham, east London. Cydney Parker, 26, reported that fire alarms failed to sound, and an escape route gate was padlocked when the fire erupted at the Spectrum building early on Monday morning. Parker described the scene as she fled in her…