BNO News said that, a fire broke out at Google's UK headquarters in London on Thursday afternoon. There is no immediate report of casualties.
The six-story building is located at Buckingham Palace Road, near the Victoria Place Shopping Centre. "We were called in at 1.53 p.m. (local time)," a fire team spokesman said. He added that the fire breaks out on the fifth floor.
There are six fire engines and 25 firefighters are on the scene to battle the fire. The spokesman told the fire is "not very large." As per UK time 3 p.m., the fire was still burning.
Both Buckingham Palace Road and Elizabeth Street have been blocked as firefighters work to extinguish the fire, a police official said. The building has been vacated.
Witnesses posted photos of the fire to the social networking site Twitter. One photo, posted by Jon Swaine, it showed flames shooting from the roof of the building, others showed only the smoke.
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