Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters tackled a fire at a block of flats on St Mark's Hill in Surbiton.
Crews extinguished a small fire in a basement flat. One man was rescued from the building by firefighters wearing breathing apparatus and taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service.
Control Officers took the first of three calls at 0730 and mobilised firefighters to the scene from Surbiton, Kingston and New Malden fire stations. The incident was over for crews at 0816.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.