Hundreds of people were evacuated after a fire broke out in a 15-storey hotel in Wembley on Monday night.
Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to the Holiday Inn hotel on Empire Way at 8.55pm.
A blaze had started on the fourth floor of the 15-storey building, and around 280 people were evacuated before the brigade arrived.
One person was treated for smoke inhalation by the London Ambulance Service and taken to hospital.
Crews from Wembley, Park Royal, Willesden, and Northolt fire stations brought the fire under control by 10.31pm, around an hour and a half after they were called.
The fire’s cause is under investigation.
It comes a week after a Wembley family escaped in seconds as fire destroyed their home on 1 November, in a blaze they believe was started by a stray firework landing on the roof during Diwali celebrations.
Zoya Sheikh, 25, said the family had five seconds to escape before flames engulfed the house. “We had five seconds to go and grab my family, then it just continued to burn,” she said.
“It was horrible — we built our lives there, we’ve all been there since we were kids — all our memories are in there,” she said.
