Woman dies after Fulham flat fire breaks out in early hours of morning
A woman has died in a West London fire. A flat caught fire on Ongar Road in Fulham in the early hours of the morning on Thursday (August 1). Firefighters raced to the home at 4.07am and the fire was under control 40 minutes later. Most of a flat across the first and second floors of a converted end-of-terrace house was damaged by fire. Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters from Fulham, Kensington, Hammersmith , Wandsworth, Tooting and Chelsea fire stations attended. READ MORE: South London gang members loaded up on guns and ammo for funeral of friend shot dead in Brixton However despite their best efforts and that of London Ambulance Service paramedics, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. It's not the only death the capital has seen recently in a fire. Robert Price, 76, was rescued from a mid-terraced house last Sunday (July 28), but was pronounced dead at the scene outside the property. The fire had ripped through half of the ground floor. A 17-year-old boy...