An electrical fault caused a 'rapidly spreading' loft fire in Walthamstow.
Fire crews were called to the blaze in Fleeming Road at 1.58pm on Sunday, January 3.
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters responded to the fire.
About half of the loft conversion attached to a first floor flat of a terraced house converted into two floors of flats was destroyed. One person left the property before the brigade arrived and there were no reported injuries.
The cause of the blaze was found by the brigade’s fire investigators to be accidental.
It involved an electrical fault in a lighting fixture behind plasterboard in the roof.
Station officer Rob Hurn, who attended the scene, said: “This was a dynamic fire. Our crews accessed the loft through a very tight space and quickly found a number of void areas in the roof, between the plasterboard and the insulation, through which the fire was spreading rapidly. We worked fast to access those voids and stop the fire spreading to the roofs of the neighbouring properties.”
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