Emergency services were called to a first-floor flat fire.

Firefighters attended the incident in Wallis Park, Northfleet today just before midday.

Crews entered the building equipped with breathing apparatus and extinguished a fire in the bedroom.

One woman was tended to by the ambulance service suffering from smoke inhalation, before being taken to hospital.

A kitten also escaped the fire uninjured.

The cause of the fire is not yet determined.