The Abbey View tower block on the Meriden estate in Watford caught alight after the fire started at around 5am, causing an evacuation from the building as fire and rescue teams attended to the blaze.

Herts Fire and Rescue have confirmed the fire started in a bin in the residential block’s bin store before spreading to the rest of the block, which is 16 storeys high.

Eight fire engines were called to put out the fire and firefighters evacuated floors 1-4 of the building. Other emergency services arrived, police closed the full stretch of Garsmouth Way, from Meriden Way to York Way, and asked people to avoid the area.

According to Evening Standard, building resident Andrew Carberry alerted his neighbours to the fire, and told the Standard he “didn’t want another Grenfell”.

Mr Carberry said he was in his front room when he became aware of the fire and then began alerting his neighbours in the tower block that there was a fire.

The ambulance service said that other than one person being treated for on-scene smoke inhalation, No casualties have been reported and the fire was put out at around 6.20am.