A man has been taken to hospital with breathing difficulties after a house fire.

Two fire engines were sent to Jubilee Crescent, Gravesend, just after 3pm.

The crews found a storage shed, used as a utility room, well alight.

Wearing breathing apparatus, the firefighters extinguished the blaze.

A man aged in his late teens experienced breathing difficulties due to the smoke and was given oxygen by the firefighters.

He was then transferred into the care of paramedics and taken to hospital.

The cause of the fire is believed to have been accidental.

The storage shed was severely damaged by the blaze.

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