A 75-year-old man required paramedic treatment after fire broke out in a high-rise flat.
The man was treated after a fire broke out in a kitchen in a flat on the seventh floor of Hereford Court in Hereford Street in Brighton at just before 3.30pm this afternoon.
Fire crews used breathing apparatus and jets to extinguish the fire in an operation lasting about 30 minutes.
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