A HEROIC man who alerted residents in a block of flats in Hatfield to a fire in its basement car park has been taken to hospital with smoke inhalation.
The flats in Mosquito Way had to be evacuated after an abandoned blue Fiat Punto car caught fire in the underground car park at about 4.40pm yesterday.
Twenty people were still inside the flats when a brave man spotted the fire and raised the alarm.
Ambulance spokesman Gary Sanderson said: "Paramedics treated a man at the scene for smoke inhalation after he entered the flats to raise the alarm of the fire in the car park below. He managed to alert 20 people in the flats above to get out to a place of safety.
"He was suffering with breathing problems. He was placed on a nebuliser and then taken to the QEII Hospital in Welwyn Garden City.
"A total of 20 members of the public who were led to a place of safety in an adjacent block of flats were all checked over by ambulance staff and they did not require hospital treatment."
Fire investigators are trying to establish what caused the blaze.
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