Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There has been a devastating fire in London. The blaze engulfed a 24-story apartment building in west London overnight. At least 50 people have been sent to the hospital with injuries. There have been fatalities. Because the fire spread quickly in the middle of the night, many in the neighborhood fear the worst. For more, we turn now to NPR's Frank Langfitt. Frank, where are you? And what are you seeing? FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel. I'm in the Kensington-Chelsea area. This would be maybe a mile or two east of Notting Hill, which people would know from that Hugh Grant movie. And the building - as you mentioned, it's 24-stories high, and it's just completely charred. There's still smoke coming off of it. It's all blackened. Recently, I was just looking up at it, and you could still see flames inside. Most of it - what we understand is the firefighters - rescuers, really - have made their way up to the upper
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