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Investigators probe cause of fire at 22-storey Aldgate tower

By 2022-03-08T10:02:00

Sigma Seifert Architects' One Commercial Street

Source: Elizabeth Hopkirk

More than 100 firefighters called to blaze on 17th floor as debris seen falling from the side of Sigma Seifert building

Fire investigators were today trying to establish the cause of a major fire at a block of flats and offices above a Tube station on the edge of the City of London designed by Sigma Seifert Architects.

Around 70 people were evacuated after the blaze broke out yesterday afternoon in a flat on the 17th floor of the 2014 Relay Building which stands on the corner of Whitechapel High Street above Aldgate East Tube.

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