A child and four adults were saved from a Bermondsey flat fire by firefighters in the early hours of this morning, (Friday, October 14).
At 1.20am, firefighters wearing breathing apparatus fought through the flames on Preston Close, just off the Old Kent Road near Townsend Primary School, saving two adults and a child from the second floor and two adults from the first floor.
The endangered residents had been speaking to 999 control staff, who gave them potentially life-saving fire survival advice before firefighters arrived.
All the victims were treated at the scene by London Ambulance service crews. The fire damaged most of a two-roomed flat on the ground floor of a residential block was damaged by the fire.
Firefighters had brought the blaze under control by 2.40am. Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters from New Cross, Lambeth, Old Kent Road, Dockhead, Peckham and Dowgate fire stations attended the scene.
The Met Police Service and London Fire Bridge are investigating the cause of the fire.