Police are investigating after firefighters had to rescue three people from a blaze in a block of flats.

Half of a three-roomed flat in Blenheim Gardens, Willesden Green was destroyed in the fire yesterday evening (March 14).

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was called to the fire on the third floor of a four-storey block at 6.40pm.

Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus led three people to safety from the third floor of the building.

An LFB spokesperson said that there were no reports of any injuries and that the blaze was under control by 7.20pm.

The cause of the fire is under investigation by the brigade and the Metropolitan Police Service.

Fire crews from Willesden, West Hampstead and North Kensington fire stations attended the scene.