Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters were sent to a large blaze in Neasden on Friday, just under a mile from Wembley Stadium, two days before AEW All In.
London Fire Brigade said the fire is on an industrial estate on Hannah Close in north-west London. Its control room took the first of more than 70 calls at 11.34am, and crews came from Wembley, Park Royal, Willesden and surrounding stations.
The brigade told people nearby to stay inside.
“Residents in the immediate area should close doors and windows, remaining inside where possible, due to the large amount of smoke being produced.”
Three of the brigade’s 32-metre ladders have been sent, along with its drone team, a hose laying unit and a high volume pump to increase the water available at the scene.
Unconfirmed reports on social media have suggested the fire is at a waste and recycling facility and that there was an explosion. The brigade has not said what the building is used for and has not mentioned an explosion. The cause is not yet known and no injuries have been reported.
Transport was affected across the area. Transport for London reported no service on the entire Metropolitan line and no service between Willesden Green and Wembley Park on the Jubilee line, with minor delays elsewhere on it. Rail services into London Marylebone were also disrupted. The BBC reported smoke visible from Westminster.
The Metropolitan and Jubilee lines both serve Wembley Park, the station most people attending All In use. Whether services are running normally by Sunday will matter to anybody traveling to the show.
AEW runs All In at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, August 30. The company has not commented and there is no indication at this stage that the show is affected.
This is the second time in two weeks that fire has become a live issue around the venue, though the two are unconnected. The Weeknd performed at Wembley on August 14 and closed with a large fireworks display, on the same day the UK government issued an emergency alert warning of severe wildfire risk across England and Wales and telling the public to avoid anything that could start a fire, listing fireworks specifically.
Local officials publicly questioned why the display went ahead. Wembley defended it, saying the show was a controlled performance delivered within the stadium footprint and subject to established safety procedures, and that all pyrotechnics at the venue are designed and managed by specialist professionals. The stadium has since met with the Metropolitan Police and the London Fire Brigade, and Brent Council said it had sought and received assurances about its approach.
Both the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and Fightful Select reported this week that AEW is expected to reduce its pyro at All In as a result, with some still anticipated rather than none at all.
Tony Khan was asked about those reports by Metro on Wednesday and said they were news to him.
“That’s the first I’ve heard of any of that, so I can’t speculate.”
All In is AEW’s third show at Wembley and its first there since 2024, when the event drew 46,476. The 2023 show, announced at 81,035 with reported paid attendance closer to 72,000, remains the company’s largest. It is headlined by Kenny Omega defending the AEW World Championship against Will Ospreay.
Khan told the same interview that he intends to keep bringing the company back to England, calling London possibly the best city in the world for AEW, and the company announced this week that it will run France for the first time in October.
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