Some 30 firefighters and six fire engines attended the scene.
A flat above a pub on #FleetStreet is on fire & we've got 6 engines, 30 firefighters at the scene. Pic @PremSafety pic.twitter.com/XONgH2O760
— London Fire Brigade (@LondonFire) November 11, 2015
Tim Dickens, of the Royal Television Society, reported that a specialist ambulance crew arrived. There have been no reported injuries.
Transport for London (TfL) confirmed Fleet Street was closed in both directions between Ludgate Circus and Fetter Lane due to the fire.The LFB say the blaze was in a first floor flat above a pub on Fleet Street.
A Goldman Sachs employee told the Huffington Post UK the investment bank's offices were evacuated following the fire.They said a "significant amount of smoke appeared to be coming from [the] building above Pret a Manger.
"Surrounding buildings were partially evacuated, including Goldman Sachs."
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