It’s not every day you come home to a burning building – thankfully it wasn’t my flat! At first i had no idea where the fire was – i just knew the police had roped off all the streets around where i was trying to go. Got a pretty good view of the flames at one point – easily reaching higher than the 3-storey Hawley Arms they eventually engulfed.
As usual, the BBC had the best coverage, while at the same time being the slowest to react. I still prefer that approach to Sky News, however, who had more videos on their site but kept making stuff up about the area on their rolling news channel. Sensationalist as ever, but even after all their overuse of the word “Tragedy”, no one was hurt (which was almost as amazing as the fire itself).