Firefighters led a man to safety after they were called to a blaze at a Westcliff flat.
Two crews attended the fire in Bruton Avenue at 6.30am today.
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the smoke-logged ground floor flat to bring the man out before tackling the blaze.
They had extinguished the fire within 25 minutes.
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