Firefighters on scene of fire near London's Olympic Park

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Firefighters respond to a huge fire in east London tonight (April 1).

In video filmed by an eyewitness, thick black smoke rises into the sky this evening from the fire at a derelict building in Hackney Wick, neart the Olympic Park.

London Fire Brigade tweeted that a fire occurred at a disused warehouse on Wick Lane in Hackney.

Eight fire engines and 58 firefighters were called to the fire at a derelict building, they said, which is now under control.