Reading Fire LIVE updates: Raging inferno at high-rise constructing

The One Station Hill Complex was a landmark constructing that was attributable to open subsequent yr containing 15 flooring of workspace and a health membership.

This isn’t the primary time the landmark constructing has caught hearth, because it was the centre of a blaze in July final yr.

Office employees at Thames Tower, which may be very near the development website on hearth, noticed the flames first hand and had been requested to evacuated round 11.40am.

Redwood Consulting, on behalf of Station Hill, stated: ‘We activated our hearth emergency plans instantly, the emergency providers had been notified and are at present on website.

‘The security of these on website and the broader public is at all times our first precedence, and the location has been evacuated in consequence.

‘As quickly as we have now extra data we’ll present an replace.’

An inerno broke out earlier at a high-rise constructing in Reading with a person stranded on the prime of the One Station Hill growth when it caught hearth.

The blaze broke out at 11.38am as we speak close to the city prepare station.

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