Two people were rescued from a block of flats after a fire in a bin store.
Three fire crews were called to the blaze in Stonebridge Court, Northampton, at about 11pm last night.
A spokesman for Northampton Fire & Rescue Service said: “On arrival crews led one person to safety and discovered that another person had been rescued by members of the public using a ladder prior to the arrival of the fire service.
The bin store suffered severe damage by fire with the communal stairwell of the two storey block being severely damaged by heat and smoke.”
Two crews from Moulton and one from The Mounts attended the scene and hte fire was out by 11.50pm.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.