An elderly man and a woman were treated by paramedics after a fire at a supported housing complex in Gravesend yesterday evening.

Firefighters were called out to a flat fire on the top floor of a six storey building in Truro Road, just before 5pm.

Crews wearing breathing apparatus entered the property and found a blaze had broken out in the kitchen of the property.

Firefighters used a dry-powder extinguisher, a man jet to put out the flames and then cleared smoke from the property using a fan.

Several other flats had to be evacuated as a result, however residents were later allowed to return to their properties.

One elderly man and an elderly woman were passed into the care of ambulance crews and the cause of the fire is not yet known, but it is not being treated a suspicious.

Crews left the scene after about two hours.