A man has been taken to hospital after a fire ripped through a mid-terraced flat on Kingston Road in New Malden on Tuesday.
Emergency workers from the London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service were called to the scene at around 8.38am.
Paramedics treated three people at the scene and one man was taken to hospital “as a priority”.
The man man managed to get out of the burning building before the fire brigade arrived and was taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service crews.
One of the brigade’s new 32-metre turntable ladders was sent to the scene and used as a water tower, allowing crews to fight the fire from the outside.
The fire is now under control but crews are expected to remain on scene throughout the afternoon.
Firefighters from New Malden, Surbiton, Kingston, Wimbledon and surrounding fire stations were called to the blaze at 8.37am.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Several houses have been evacuated. The road is closed in both directions and there are queues back through New Malden to the A3.
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 08:39am to reports of an incident on Kingston Road, New Malden.
“We sent one ambulance crew, an incident response officer, a medic in a response car and members of our Hazardous Area Response Team (HART). The first of our medics arrived in under three minutes.
“We treated three people at the scene and took one man to hospital as a priority.”
