Moment residents rescued from burning Kensington flats captured on police bodycam

Body-worn camera footage of police officers running into a burning building in South Kensington has been released after a flat fire in south-west London left 13 people needing hospital treatment.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson over the blaze at a five-storey building in Emperor’s Gate just after midnight on Friday 1 March.

Footage shows police officers kicking open the main door of the building and the front door of a smoke-filled flat while shouting to residents to leave.

One can be heard calling to people trapped on the second floor to stay close to the ground and cover the gap at the bottom of their door before a firefighter climbs a ladder to rescue them.