Eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters tackled a fire at a flat on Barrington Road in Lambeth.
Firefighters tackled a fire at an 11-storey building, where a maisonette flat on the fifth and sixth floors was completely destroyed by fire. One man escaped from the flat before the Brigade arrived, along with one adult and four children from a neighbouring flat. Two adults and one child left a flat from a flat at a lower level following guidance from the Brigade's 999 Control officers. A further 21 residents self evacuated the building.
The Brigade's Control Officers took the first of 25 calls about the fire at 0805 and mobilised firefighters from Brixton, Clapham, Peckham, Lambeth, Battersea and West Norwood fire stations to the scene. The fire was under control at 0933.
The cause of the fire has been recorded as undetermined.