150 evacuated from tower block blaze

A man is in a critical condition after a tower block  fire.

Fire crews evacuated 150 residents from a block of flats in Wandsworth, south London at around 12.35 am on Friday 12^th August after a fire broke out on the 9^th floor.

Firefighters pulled the 40 year old man from the fire and he was immediately taken to hospital suffering from burns and smoke inhalation. It is reported that the man had also suffered a cardiac arrest according to a London Fire Brigade spokesperson.

50 firefighters and 8 engines attended the incident at Andrew Reed House which took around 2 hours to extinguish.

Scotland Yard confirm that the fire was not linked to the recent riots in the capital.

A spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade said that: “Eighty per cent damage was caused to the flat where the fire started while 70% damage was done to the external fascia above the ninth floor.”