A painstaking investigation into the cause of a fire in Neasden, which killed six people and seriously injured two others in the early hours of Saturday morning is still ongoing. London Fire Brigade said that fire investigators are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to establish the cause of the fire.

At this stage, the London Fire Brigade is able to confirm that a BEKO fridge freezer was at the scene of the fire. However, this is not forming part of the fire investigation at this time.

Six fire engines and around 30 firefighters were called to the fire on Sonia Gardens in Neasden, London, NW10, in the early hours of Saturday 24th September. The ground floor and first floor of the two storey semi detached house was badly damaged by the fire.

A woman aged 41 and five children: three girls aged 14, 13 and 9, and two boys aged 5 and 2 died. Two further people, a man aged 51 and a girl aged 16, escaped from the house before firefighters arrived at the scene. Both were injured and taken to hospital by ambulance.

Fire crews were at the scene within minutes of the brigade being called about the fire -the first fire engine was there within four minutes and the second was there within seven minutes. Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service crews were also at the scene.

The Metropolitan Police has deemed the cause of the fire to be non-suspicious but investigations continue to find out how the fire started.

 

Posted September 26th, 2011 at 1645 by Andrew. Comment by emailing: andrew.lynch@pavpub.com