and the fire broke out in the early hours of this morning between 12 and one o clock. the first call to the metropolitan police was at 1:15am. the blaze, you can see now there are no flames this stage, just smoke, and you can see the damage done to the building. let s give you a sense from the images last night from the early hours of the morning. you can get a real sense of the scale of the blaze that was engulfing the building. let s tell you about who is tackling the fire at the moment. around 200 firefighters, a0 fire engines, and of course london ambulance has sent a number of vehicles and medical staff to the scene. 0ur correspondent is at the scene this morning. tell us what you can see. well, you can see the block is still alight. you can see some flames there. you can see the fire brigade hosing down the lower reaches of the building. but the fire service said that this was a blaze reaching from the second floor right up to the 27th floor. it s been a blaze for fiv