A woman escaped from a burning house in South Norwood after neighbours used a ladder to rescue her from the flames.
The fire ripped through the ground floor of the house in Canham Road after breaking out in a dining room just after midnight last night.
Firefighters raced to the scene but found the woman had already escaped by climbing out of a first floor window.
A dog was also rescued from the flames.
Firefighter Danny Phillips said it had been "quite a big fire, but luckily we got it down quite quickly".
The woman was treated by paramedics at the scene.
A police car could be seen parked outside the house this morning, and it is believed investigators are still trying to establish the cause of the fire.
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