Almost 60 firemen battled a sizable fire at a residential building in central London.
Photos from the residential building on Bartholomew Close, Barbican, showed flames shooting out of the window.
An ambulance was on the scene to treat a man who managed to flee the fire before the fire department arrived.
Also, the other residents of the building were evacuated.
To combat the blaze, which damaged portions of two apartments on the third and fourth floors of the building, eight fire engines were stationed nearby.
They were called there just before 4pm, with crews from Soho, East Greenwich, Lambeth and other surrounding areas of the city attending to help the efforts.
London Fire Brigade (LFB) urged people to avoid the streets surrounding the close.
Drones were used to get a sense of the scale of the incident.
Station Commander Steve Howlett, who was at the scene, said: ‘Firefighters worked incredibly hard to ensure everyone was accounted for and there were no remaining hot spots.
‘The brigade’s Drone Team were able to use drones to survey the incident from above and relay images of hard-to-reach areas to incident commanders.’
A statement from the fire service said: ‘Most of a four-roomed flat on the third floor of a residential building was damaged by fire.
‘Part of another flat on the fourth floor was also damaged by the blaze.
‘The brigade’s 999 Control Officers took more than 35 calls to the blaze.’
They added: ‘The cause of the fire is under investigation.’
It comes after a man was killed in a separate flat fire at the Golden Lane Estate in Barbican on Tuesday.