On 22nd June, six fire engines and 40 crew were called to a fire in a business property in Kingsbury Road at 2.45am. Reports suggest that London Fire Brigade’s 999 control officers had received 99 calls to the blaze which is now under investigation by the brigade and the Met Police.
Half of the ground floor of the building was damaged by the fire and an adjacent outside seating area was destroyed.
Dilip Hirani owns the neighbouring property said, “The six people in the hospital are my son and his family. They are fine, only the smoke came into the building. I have nothing to lose, but I now worry for my next-door elderly neighbors.
“I have lost all my 40 years of hard work, all my printing machines are damaged. This year my insurance company visited the site and seen tyre shop next to my rear sidewall and shisha bar lounge on my right side next to my wall, so they refuse to renew my building insurance because of fire hazard. Now my family is on the street, tonight my family 2 adults and 2 children 11 years son and 4 years old daughter sleep on the floor at my sitting room, your department spends over £150,000 to damage my property in 2018, I have spent 1000's pounds on my legal fees, the case still going on and on.”
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus rescued two men, a woman and three children via an internal staircase of a neighbouring property.
They were all treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital but two vehicles were also damaged by the blaze.
The fire, attended by crews from Wembley, Finchley, Hendon, Stanmore and Mill Hill, was under control by 4.20am.
