Operator trapped on crane boom in London site fire
Seven people have been hospitalised after a fire broke out at a construction site in east London.
In dramatic scenes, a worker presumed to be the crane operator sought refuge at the end of the counter jib as thick black smoke engulfed the mast of his Wolff tower crane.
The fire broke out at contractor Bouygues’ Makers Yard residential scheme, near Silvertown Way in Canning Town.According to the London Fire Brigade, the fire started within a base in the commercial unit in the 10-storey
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