More than 100 people were evacuated as flames ripped through a popular luxury hotel and restaurant in central London on Friday.

A fire broke out at a luxury London hotel known as a celebrity hotspot, engulfing the historic building and forcing about 100 people to be evacuated.

Around a hundred people evacuated from five star hotel in central London as firefighters work to put out the blaze

More than 100 people were Friday forced to evacuate a luxury London hotel, a favorite celebrity haunt that was once a fire station, when a Valentine's Day blaze broke out, firefighters said. The London Fire Brigade said on X they had about "20 fire engines and around 125 firefighters at the scene of the #Marylebone hotel fire" after it first erupted earlier in the afternoon.