Defiant Londoners have reached out and offered to help anyone caught up in a bomb blast which hit an underground train this morning.
People across the capital have offered to make tea and open up their homes to anyone wounded in the blast on a train at Parsons Green in west London.
Taxi drivers have also come to the aid of those affected and offered free journeys while Facebook users are inviting victims in to shelter, rest and charge their phones.
And a local restaurant owner whose family were evacuated from their home is handing out more than 200 free pizzas to emergency services – with a worker ferrying the food on a skateboard.
Social media is awash with people offering to ‘put the kettle on’ for those affected by the Parsons Green bomb blast
A local restaurant owner is handing out more than 200 free pizzas to emergency services
Nearby taxi company Hayber Cars has offered its services free of charge, while Chelsea and Fulham Dentist has also offered people a place to shelter.
Geoff Ho, a business editor at the Sunday Express newspaper, was stabbed in the throat while facing terrorists head on in the London Bridge terror attack in June.
Mr Ho, an expert in Kung Fu and kickboxing, had earlier intervened when he spotted a bouncer being attacked by two men outside The Southwark Tavern.
He took to Twitter today saying: ‘Thankfully no-one died at Parsons Green today. It’s great to see people rallying together.’
Jan Ståhlberg tweeted: ‘Classic British response to an emergency & major incident: ‘I’ll put the kettle on’. Compassion and Communities come together.’
Anthony J Myers added: ‘Thank you to TfL staff, emergency services, security services and the Londoners of #ParsonsGreen who have offered to put the kettle on.’
Kind-hearted Debbie Clark, 57, has opened up her home on Kelvedon Road as a makeshift hospital while a police hunt is underway for the perpetrators behind the terror incident.
The mother-of-two woke up to hear banging at her front door from her neighbour Princess Stafford, who is deaf and mute and had been badly injured in a stampede as hundreds rushed out of the station following an explosion.
Ms Clark said: ‘I woke up to banging and she was at my door crying and distressed.
‘I’ve lived here all my life and was born in Parson’s Green, you never expect something like this to happen.’
People across the capital have offered to make tea and open up their homes to anyone wounded in the blast on a train at Parsons Green in west London
Fulham Osteopaths have also opened their doors after two of their staff were caught up in the explosion.
Jose, 52, was on his way home to Stockwell from his cleaning shift in Fulham the train when the device was detonated.
He was too shaken up to speak to MailOnline but his colleague said: ‘Everyone screamed and ran into the next carriage. They were all crammed together and someone managed to break open the doors and get out onto the tracks but he was there for about an hour.’
Another of their cleaners was heading towards the station when there was a stampede. They took shelter in nearby cafe Gail’s where they were told to go down to the basement.
Manager Angela Zanguna, 38, said: ‘They were locked in there for two hours, they are both very shaken up.’
Fulham Osteopaths have also opened their doors after two of their staff were caught up in the explosion
Despite the troubling circumstances and with the suspect still at large, Ms Zanguna and her boss Andrew Cotton have opened up their store to help people.
They are offering refreshments, bathroom facilities and phone charging.
Mr Cotton, 59, said: ‘You really don’t expect something like this to happen in Parson’s Green. I was over the road having a coffee at the time.
‘It was about school time when it happened, all the kids were getting off the buses and all of the sudden everyone was on their phones and there was a mad rush. There were police everywhere.’
Mrs Zanguna added: ‘There were lots of rumours going around, there was lots of drama and no one knew what was happening.’
Social media is awash with people offering to ‘put the kettle on’ for those affected by the Parsons Green bomb blast
Teo Catino, 52, said his wife and child should have been on the tube at the time of the attack.
He said: ‘I have owned a business and lived in Parsons Green for the past 25 years. My wife and daughter should have been on the tube this morning going to school.
‘Luckily they are on the bus coming back from France today so they are safe but my sons are both a little shaken.’
His family had to be evacuated out of the area because they lived near the tube station.
Teo is handing out free pizza and water for the hungry emergency services who have been attending the scene since 8am.
A nurse who came to collect the food said: ‘This is perfect. We have a team here who have been here since 8am and we won’t leave until about 8pm. We can’t say anything further on what’s happening because we haven’t been briefed.’
Flames engulfed one carriage and raced along a train on a west London route to Parsons Green, forcing passengers to trample others as they rushed for an exit
Armed Police, paramedics and firefighters were all said to be at the west London station within five minutes of the explosion
Ms Clark said she saw three girls opposite her home, one of whom was crying and said they there were all ‘as white as a sheet’.
Taking them into her home, she gave them water and called their parents.
She said: ‘They are just in shock. They said it happened so quickly, they just wanted to get out of there. One was from Sheffield, another from Surrey.’
She said: ‘I brought them all into my home, called the police and their parents. I just wanted to do something, you feel so helpless.’
Her neighbor Princess is currently on Ms Clark’s balcony with two chairs creating a makeshift stretcher with a suspected leg injury.
The 32-year-old was pushed to the floor by panicked commuters as she waited to board a train at Parson’s Green to take her to work.
She told MailOnline how she was knocked to the ground and trapped.
She said: ‘I couldn’t move, there were people on top of me and walking over me.’
The rush was so great she was pushed back to the stairwell, she said.
With tears in her eyes, she communicated to MailOnline how she couldn’t breathe because of the number of people passing over her.
This afternoon she is still waiting to be taken to hospital at Ms Clark’s home. She was told by London Ambulance they could be waiting for up to four hours.
Ms Clark said: ‘They are going to send a non emergency could take two to four hours because there have been serious injuries we understand. She can’t communicate she can’t hear and talk – I am so glad I was in for her.’