Drone captures post fire view of Manchester apartment that set slight. <br /> <br />Photographs have revealed the devastated remains of homes after a raging inferno spread across several floors thanks to the high rise's wooden balconies. <br /> <br />Flames and smoke spread to several flats of the building in Manchester's Northern Quarter and a 23-year-old was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. <br /> <br />At the height of the blaze, twelve engines were deployed and a firefighter was seen leaping from one balcony to another after being pictured outside a burning apartment. <br /> <br />Residents of the block revealed how they were told to stay inside their flats by firefighters as a wall of deadly smoke had filled the block's staircase. <br /> <br />An investigation has now begun into what caused the tower block fire, which comes six months after a blaze at Grenfell Tower in London killed 71 people. <br /> <br />The fire service said it had been spread by the block's wooden balconies, while external cladding was ruled out as an accelerant. <br /> <br />As the blaze raged, Manchester Fire and Rescue Service tweeted: 'We still have 12 fire appliances tackling the blaze in the Northern Quarter over a number of floors. <br /> <br />'Firefighting in still ongoing and one casualty has been taken to hospital suffer by smoke inhalation. Please avoid the area as roads are still shut.' <br /> <br />In a statement, the service also said: 'We're currently tackling a fire on the 9th floor of a 12 storey building on Joiner Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter.' <br /> <br />Second floor resident Megan Baxter told the Manchester Evening News: 'I heard a knock on the door, but I thought it was just a postman so I didn't answer at first.
