A flat in Littlehampton was badly damaged by fire this morning.
The blaze on the first floor of a building in East Ham Road was reported to firefighters at about 3.45am.
They used heat-detecting cameras to search the flat but no-one was inside.
Fire investigators were called but the cause of the fire is still unknown.
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