EMERGENCY services were called to a fire in a Poole flat in the early hours of this morning.

Fire crews, police officers and paramedics rushed to a property in South Haven Close at around 1.40am.

A man was led to safety and taken to hospital as a precaution.

A spokesperson from the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said three engines from Poole and one from Westbourne, as well as a command support vehicle from Hamworthy, were mobilised.

"It was a fire involving cooking in a first floor kitchen," the spokesperson said.

"A person was taken to hospital as a precaution."