A man remains in a critical condition in hospital tonight following a fire at a block of flats in Stratford this afternoon.
He was rescued by firefighters from the flats in Hamlet Way in the town after an emergency call was made at 3.40pm.
Two ambulances, a senior paramedic officer and a paramedic area support officer from West Midlands Ambulance Service attended the incident, along with Warwickshire Fire & Rescue Service and Warwickshire Police.
The Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance was also dispatched to the scene.
Group commander Ian Tonner, from Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: “The fire service were called by a lady who said she had spotted smoke coming out of a flat at the end of her road.
"The Stratford crew were first to attend at the scene, where a man was calling out for help from the upstairs kitchen window.
“We did try to get him out of the window with ladders but due to the smoke he had inhaled, he was too frail to exit the property this way.
"We gave the man oxygen at the window and broke in through the door downstairs to access him.
“The air ambulance did attend, dropping off doctors, but had to take off again so the casualty was transported by land ambulance to hospital.
“We don’t suspect this fire was suspicious but investigations will continue over the coming hours.
"The Stratford fire crew were on the scene very fast and should be congratulated for their swift actions.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: “The man was rescued from the flat by fire service colleagues and quickly moved on to the back of the ambulance.
The injured man was taken to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital where he received advanced trauma treatment.
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