Firefighters battle massive blaze in London

Many were trapped in an inferno that consumed a residential tower in London on Wednesday.

Hours after the fire broke out about 1 a.m., flames and smoke can still be seen on the upper floors of Grenfell Tower.

Firefighters continued to pour water on the burned-out Grenfell Tower in west London.

A missing persons hotline number is displayed in the window of a casualty bureau after a huge fire engulfed a high-rise apartment tower in London.

People wear masks as protection from the smoke and ash from a massive fire at a high-rise apartment building overnight in London.

Firefighters spray water on the huge fire that engulfed a high-rise apartment tower in London.

A victim’s body is removed from the scene of a fire at a high-rise apartment building in London.

Firefighters walk through part of the rubble of a high-rise apartment building that burned overnight in London.

Smoke billows from a high-rise apartment tower burning in London.

Firefighters enter the ground floor of a high-rise apartment tower struck by fire overnight in London.

Smoke rises from the fire at the Grenfell Tower apartment block in London.

Smoke and flames rise from a building in London. Metropolitan Police say they’re continuing to evacuate people from a massive apartment fire in west London.

Thick smoke rises from a building in London.

The fire at this point stretches from the second to the 27th floor of the London building.

Onlookers watch as an apartment building burns in London on June 14, 2017, in an image taken from video.

An apartment building burns in London on June 14, 2017, in an image taken from video.

Flames engulf an apartment building in west London on June 14, 2017.

An apartment building is in flames in London on June 14, 2017.