London Fire Brigade

Emergency services found a bus and car alight on Monday evening and three people died at the scene.

The Met Office said there was an amber fire warning and that temperatures could reach 22C (71F).

Residents near the scene in east London say she was playing in the water during a day off from school.

Police are searching water in North Woolwich after reports of an 11-year-old girl in the Thames.

Clive Robinson was 18 when he joined London Fire Brigade in 1975 and was paid 80p an hour.

There have been three such attacks since March 2017 in London, with response training seen as crucial.

The front gable end of three terraced houses converted into flats fell to the ground overnight.

London Fire Brigade is making "steady progress" tackling a fire in a disused building in Kingston.