A woman was carried to safety after fire engulfed her third-floor flat.
The blaze broke out in the kitchen of the flat at St Andrew's Gardens in Church Road, Tarring, Worthing, at 8.15pm yesterday.
Firefighters found the 39-year-old woman semi-conscious as smoke billowed through the property.
They carried her down three flights of stairs and she was taken to Worthing Hospital after breathing in smoke.
A fire brigade spokesman said: "Had a smoke detector been fitted in this property it would have given the occupant time to get out. It was a fairly severe fire though."
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